Well known to have had a direct influence on Kubrick's career.

Well known to have had a direct influence on The Film God - Stanley Kubrick.

Cross-dressing club-kid Eddie (played by real-life transvestite entertainer extraordinaire Peter, famed for his role as Kyoami the Fool in Akira Kurosawa's Ran) vies with a rival drag-queen Osamu Ogasawara for the attention of drug-dealing cabaret-manager Gonda (Yoshio Tsuchiya, himself a Kurosawa player who appeared in such films as Seven Samurai, Throne of Blood, and High and Low).

Passions escalate and blood begins to flow — before all tensions are released in a jolting climax resembling Oedipus Rex, set within the seedy underbelly of 60's Tokyo.

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