Stray Cat Rock: Machine Animal
Long live LSD! Long live machine guns! Long live motorbikes!
Directed by Yasuharu Hasebe
Produced by Nikkatsu Corporation
A kinetic, psychedelic-tinged crime thriller about street gangs and drug deals, driven by 1970s counterculture aesthetics and sustained action rather than emotional depth.
Two Japanese men help a Vietnam war deserter escape from Japan for Sweden. They plan to fund the escape by selling LSD pills. After word of the drug deal gets spread around they find themselves fending off rival gangs.
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