Stray Cat Rock: Crazy Rider '71

– Toshiya Fujita brings the five film Stray Cat Rock series to a highly enjoyable end. Like his previo..

Type:
Movie
Rating:
6.10 / 10
Duration:
One Hour and 26 Minutes
Release Year:
1971
Original Name:
野良猫ロック 暴走集団'71
Stray Cat Rock: Crazy Rider '71 (1971) - Also known as 野良猫ロック 暴走集団'71

Toshiya Fujita brings the five film Stray Cat Rock series to a highly enjoyable end. Like his previous instalment, Wild Jumbo, Beat ’71 is an easy going youth drama that does not follow Yasuharu Hasebe’s wild gang film path. Instead Fujita deals with social issues. The film follows a hippie community lead by Yoshitaro (Yoshio Harada). They decide to leave their trailer in Shinjuku and travel to countryside by bicycle to save their friend Furiko (Meiko Kaji) who has been falsely accused for murder. The real killer – although it was mainly self defense – is Furiko’s boyfried Takaaki (Takeo Chii) who is being controlled by his politician father. Takaaki would rather live free as a hippie, but his father is forcing him to become a businessman.

Producing Country:
Release Date:

03 Jan 1971

Language:

Japanese

MPAA Content-Rating:
NOT RATED

Director:

Toshiya Fujita

Writer:

Tatsuya Asai (screenplay), Hideichi Nagahara (screenplay)

Main Actors:

Meiko Kaji, Tatsuya Fuji, Yoshio Harada, Takeo Chii

Plot:

The series swansong, Beat '71, sees Kaji framed and sent to prison by her boyfriend's father and with the help of some hippies she strives to be re-united.

Ratings:
Internet Movie Database:
6.0/10