On summer vacation, university student Shintaro gets involved with a magic troupe as they travel from festival to festival.
Direction
Suzuki's visual excess crammed into 85 minutes of festival hopping.
Production
Genuine magic show sequences shot with documentary-like energy.
Director
Seijun Suzuki
Kōji Wada
Shintaro
Mayumi Shimizu
Shûrei Imai
Nobuo Kaneko
Ken
Shin Morikawa
Kin'yô Imai
Hiroshi Nihon'yanagi
Toshio Yamaguchi
Arihiro Fujimura
George Michizuki
Hiroshi Kondō
Kyûsuke Akita
Kotoe Hatsui
Kinka Imai
Hiroshi Hijikata
Edy Murakawa
Kyoji Sugi
Genji Kurita
Naomi Hoshi
Mary Akemi
Jūkei Fujioka
Aoki
Tomio Aoki
Sampei
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Suzuki shot this between his more famous noir films, treating it as a palette cleanser that still bears his signature visual madness.
The film captures actual Japanese summer festival culture of the early 1960s, with Suzuki sneaking social commentary under the guise of youthful romp.
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