Where to Watch Kappa (1986)

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Read on for a listing of streaming and cable services - including rental, purchase, and subscription options - along with the availability of 'Kappa' on each platform when they are available. Now, before we get into all the details of how you can watch 'Kappa' right now, here are some particulars about the KYO-DAI animation flick.

Kappa starring Mike Kelley, Mary Woronov, Keye Luke, Edward Ruscha has a Not Rated rating, a runtime of about 26 min, and a scheduled release date of June 17th, 1986.

Here’s what’s going on in this one... Here's the plot: "Deconstructing the myth of Oedipus within the framework of an ancient Japanese folk story, the Yonemotos craft a highly charged discourse of loss and desire. Quoting from Bunuel, Freud, pop media and art, they place the symbology of Western psychosexual analytical theory into a cross-cultural context, juxtaposing the Oedipal and Kappa myths in a delirious collusion of form and content. The Kappa, a malevolent Japanese water imp, is played with eerie intensity by artist Mike Kelley; actress Mary Woronov plays Jocasta as a vamp from a Hollywood exploitation film. Steeped in perversions and violent longings, both the Kappa and Oedipus legends are presented in highly stylized, purposefully "degraded" forms, reflecting their media-exploitative cultural contexts. In this ironic yet oddly poignant essay of psychosexual compulsion and catharsis, the Yonemotos demonstrate that even in debased forms, cultural archetypes hold the power to move and manipulate." .