Bumpkin Soup

Here's an oddity, even for Kurosawa: a musical comedy. Akiko treks to a Tokyo college to find her boyfriend, but encounters a host of eccentrics instead. What follows is either a send-up or an unintentional example of early-80s campus zaniness.

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Kiyoshi Kurosawa directed Bumpkin Soup in 1985. See Kiyoshi Kurosawa's full filmography, where to start with Kiyoshi Kurosawa, or where to go after you've seen everything by Kiyoshi Kurosawa.

Bumpkin Soup was released in 1985 (JA original-language production), with a runtime of 83 minutes.