Stray Cat Rock: Machine Animal (1970)

1970-11-221h 22m

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.

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