Film

Puppets Under Starry Skies

1978 · 1h 39m · Drama

IMDb

5.3

A young Japanese man finds himself in the company of a strange, effeminate gay man and a girl with a seedy sexual history and who even now is pregnant again. They share a predisposition for drug use and spend time together in an old house. He refuses the advances of the gay man, who then commits suicide. When a gang administers a beating to him, his father re-enters the scene and takes him home, along with the girl. However, the girl has decided to have her baby, and she goes to live with its father.

Yoichi Miura

Hideo

Ако

Akemi

Kazuhito Takei

Hiroshi

Teizō Muta

Yuri Yamashina

Akira Shioji

Moeko Ezawa

Akemi's mother

• Hōjin HashiuraDirector · Writer
• Atsushi YamatoyaWriter
• Yûji OkumuraDirector of Photography
• Ryouichi KuniyoshiOriginal Music Composer

Release date

January 21, 1978

Status

Released

Original language

Japanese

Runtime

1h 39m

Genres

Drama