Rent Bumpkin Soup (1985)

Name: Bumpkin Soup
Rating: 3

3.0 of 5 from 45 ratings

1h 22min

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A country girl named Akiko (Yoriko Doguchi, known for her collaborations with the late Kishin Shinoyama) visits a college in Tokyo in search of her hometown sweetheart. In the course of finding him, she runs into various odd inhabitants of the college campus-blase intellectuals, sex-crazed co-eds, a psychology professor in search of the theory of shame (played by award-winning director Juzo Itami) and of course her sweetheart Yoshioka, who has become an elusive campus nobody. Initially made for Nikkatsu's Roman Porno line, the film was rejected by the company for being too bizarre and subsequently re-edited, re-shot and given a new title.
Kurosawa's second feature is a nonsensical Godardian work that throws everything at the wall, including musical numbers, humiliation experiments and non-sequiturs galore.
Actors:: Yoriko Dôguchi, Jûzô Itami, Kensô Katô, Usagi Asô, Sôzô Teruoka, Yûichi Kishino, Hiroshi Katsuno, Shôko Kubota, Junko Watanabe, Tsutomu Nitta, Shiori Konno, Mitsuhiro Kamifuji, Yumi Tachihara, Miki Yamaji, Ryô Kachi, Mitsue Tsumuki, Kazuya Konaka, Tamami Hayashi, Makoto Shinozaki, Akira Tsunoda
Directors:: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Producers:: Katsunori Arai, Fumio Yamamoto
Writers:: Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Kunitoshi Manda
Aka:: Do-re-mi-fa musume no chi wa sawagu / The Blood of the Do-Re-Mi-Fa Girl Roars
Genres:: Comedy, Music & Musicals
Countries:: Japan