The Graceful Brute (1962)
- Original title
- しとやかな獣
- Directed by
- Yuzo Kawashima
- Genre
- comedy film
- Country
- Japan
- Runtime
- 1h 36m
- Rating
- 7.3 of 10 from 22 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A family of con artists scheme and manipulate each other and their marks in 1960s Tokyo. The film follows their deceptions and double-crosses as they try to climb the social ladder.
satiricaldarkly comicsharpwittycynicalfast-pacedtheatricalcausticcerebral
What happens
The Graceful Brute a.k.a. Elegant Beast (Japanese: しとやかな獣, Hepburn: Shitoyakana kedamono) is a 1962 Japanese satirical comedy film directed by Yūzō Kawashima and written by Kaneto Shindō. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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