Summaries

A man comes to Tokyo searching for his son's killer. He ventures into the deep underground of the city where he finds out that the untraceable killer is a mysterious revolutionary gang leader called Shinjuku Mad.

Details

Keywords
  • sex scene
  • hare krishna
  • revolutionary
  • japanese new wave
  • black and white film with a color scene
Genres
  • Drama
Release date Feb 6, 1970
Countries of origin Japan
Language Japanese
Filming locations Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan
Production companies Wakamatsu Production

Box office

Tech specs

Runtime 1h 5m
Color Color Black and White
Aspect ratio

Synopsis

A man comes to Tokyo from the countryside looking 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 symbols.Finally he finds Shinjuku Mad the man that he's been told has killed his son. He's the leader of a self-called rivolutionary gang and 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 appear as inconsistent, their will to make a revolution is weak and they don't even know what to revolt.

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