Beat ’71 (Stray Cat Rock: Beat ’71 / Nora-neko rokku: Bôsô shudan ’71). Toshiya Fujita, 1971.
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Edition screened: Included in Arrow Blu-ray box set Stray Cat Rock, released 2015. Japanese language with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 87 minutes.
Summary: Bratty kid kicking at a rabbit.
Beat ’71 concludes at a Japanese movie set depicting a 19th-century American western town. The idiotic kid who drags this barely-tolerable film down an extra 25% every time he’s on camera, caps off his performance by pointlessly kicking at a fat white domestic rabbit who is tying to hide in a road rut. The rabbit is not depicted as injured, but hope remains that the child may have been.