Boy

A family of four lives off of scams in which they pretend to be injured by automobiles.

Cast

Fumio Watanabe

as Father

Akiko Koyama

as Stepmother

Tetsuo Abe

as Boy

Takeshi Kinoshota

as Younger Brother

Yun Yun-Do

as Victim (uncredited)

LoLo Cannon

as (uncredited)

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