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
Classics
1h 5min
JAPANESE
FRENCH
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
Director
Kôji Wakamatsu
Cast
Makiko Harada
Cast
Yuko Ejima
Cast
Akiko Hirooka