Stray Cat Rock: Machine Animal

Stray Cat Rock: Machine Animal

Long live LSD! Long live machine guns! Long live motorbikes!

1970 · 82 min · ★ 6.3 · Thriller, Action, Crime, Drama

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.

Directed by Yasuharu Hasebe · Written by Ryuzo Nakanishi

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