Puppets Under Starry Skies (1978)
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.
Director: Hōjin Hashiura
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Yoichi Miura as Hideo |
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Ако as Akemi |
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Kazuhito Takei as Hiroshi |
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Teizō Muta as |
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Yuri Yamashina as |
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Akira Shioji as |
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Moeko Ezawa as Akemi's mother |
| Directing | Hōjin Hashiura | Director |
| Writing | Atsushi Yamatoya | Writer |
| Writing | Hōjin Hashiura | Writer |
| Art | Noriyoshi Ikeya | Art Direction |
| Sound | Ryouichi Kuniyoshi | Original Music Composer |
| Camera | Yûji Okumura | Director of Photography |
| Writing | Tadashi Kita | Original Story |
| Lighting | Kenichi Isohata | Lighting Technician |
| Sound | Yukio Kubota | Sound Recordist |