Movie
Path of the Beast
1980 · 71 min
A raw, slow-burn character study of poverty and desire, emotionally heavy and quietly tense.
- Directed by
- Tatsumi Kumashiro
- Genres
- Drama, Romance
- Starring
- Ayako Yoshimura, Minako Mizushima, Noboru Mitani
- Overview
- 17 year old Saki lives in a run-down shack with her mom, who survives by pushing a food cart from dawn to dusk. Saki has dropped out of school, and when she's not helping her mother selling noodles in the streets, she's playing flesh-games with boyfriend Sotoo. In her spare time, the girl also entertains a truck driver named Ataru. She believes her promiscuity is a trait inherited from her mom. Determined to improve her lot in life, Saki decides to stop seeing the two guys.
- How it feels
- Bleak, melancholic, earnest and tense. Slow-burning and needs your attention.
- About
- Class, identity, sexuality, family
- Content
- Strong sexual content. Mild violence and language. No gore.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Directed by
- Tatsumi Kumashiro
- Genres
- Drama, Romance
- Starring
- Ayako Yoshimura, Minako Mizushima, Noboru Mitani
