Shinjuku Mad

A man comes to Tokyo from the countryside to look for his son's killer. He discovers the slow pace of police investigations and, willing to understand the reasons of his son's death, slowly enters in the deep underground of the city and encounters its counterculture. Finally, he finds Shinjuku Mad - the man he has been told has killed his son. The leader of a self-called revolutionary gang, he explains to the man that his son was a rat and they had to remove all the possible obstacles on the road to revolution. But in the final verbal showdown the gang's reasons for revolution appear inconsistent...

Keywords

  • Escape to the 70's
  • Japanese Cinema
  • parenthood

Actors

  • Makiko Harada
  • Yuko Ejima
  • Akiko Hirooka

Director

  • Kôji Wakamatsu

Timeless

1h 5min

-12

JA

FR

Japan
1970
A man comes to Tokyo from the countryside to look for his son's killer. He discovers the slow pace of police investigations and, willing to understand the reasons of his son's death, slowly enters in the deep underground of the city and encounters its counterculture. Finally, he finds Shinjuku Mad - the man he has been told has killed his son. The leader of a self-called revolutionary gang, he explains to the man that his son was a rat and they had to remove all the possible obstacles on the road to revolution. But in the final verbal showdown the gang's reasons for revolution appear inconsistent...

A man comes to Tokyo from the countryside to look for his son's killer. He discovers the slow pace of police investigations and, willing to understand the reasons of his son's death, slowly enters in the deep underground of the city and encounters its counterculture. Finally, he finds Shinjuku Mad - the man he has been told has killed his son. The leader of a self-called revolutionary gang, he explains to the man that his son was a rat and they had to remove all the possible obstacles on the road to revolution. But in the final verbal showdown the gang's reasons for revolution appear inconsistent...


Cast & Crew