Puppets Under Starry Skies

Puppets Under Starry Skies

99 mins | Drama | Jan. 21, 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.

Puppets Under Starry Skies

99 mins | Drama | Jan. 21, 1978

Puppets Under Starry Skies
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.
Producers Art Theatre Guild, Tokyo Video Center
Original title 星空のマリオネット
Directors Hôjin Hashiura
Writers Tadashi Kita, Hôjin Hashiura, Atsushi Yamatoya

Cast

Yoichi Miura

as Hideo

Ako

as Akemi

Kazuhito Takei

as Hiroshi

Moeko Ezawa

as Akemi's mother