Release, runtime and language

1968 · 97 mins · Japanese

Starring

Akaji Maro, Yasunao Tone, Shigechika Satō, Rikurô Miyai, Michio Okabe, Mami Aoyama

Drawing on Susan Sontag’s ideas about kitsch and the queer “camp” aesthetic, the film creates a relentless pop‑art montage that upends conventional cinema and documents the Shinjuku underground scene. Director Okabe appears, reenacting roles from Bonnie and Clyde to westerns, inserting stills of Godard, Kennedy’s assassination and Vietnam War.