Puppets Under Starry Skies
1978, Japanese. Directed by Hōjin Hashiura.
A young Japanese man finds himself in the company of a strange, effeminate gay man and a girl with a seedy sexual history and who even now is pregnant again. They share a predisposition for drug use and spend time together in an old house. He refuses the advances of the gay man, who then commits suicide. When a gang administers a beating to him, his father re-enters the scene and takes him home, along with the girl. However, the girl has decided to have her baby, and she goes to live with its father.
- Runtime
- 1h 39m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- Japanese
- Rated
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Details
- Released
- 21 January 1978
- Original title
- 星空のマリオネット
- Country
- Japan
- Written by
- Atsushi Yamatoya, Hōjin Hashiura
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Puppets Under Starry Skies runs 99 minutes (1h 39m).
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Puppets Under Starry Skies isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 21 January 1978. (Checked 12 November 2026.)
What movies are like Puppets Under Starry Skies?
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Who directed Puppets Under Starry Skies?
Puppets Under Starry Skies (1978) was directed by Hōjin Hashiura and stars Yoichi Miura, Аko, Kazuhito Takei.