Direction: Shuji Terayama

Direction Shuji Terayama

Cast Hideaki Sasaki · Masahiro Saito · Yukiko Kobayashi · Fudeko Tanaka

Plot Terayama's audacious first film is a psychological study of alienation and a plea for sociopolitical revolution for the countercultural generation of the 1960s. In fragmented and imbalanced images, the film...

Direction Shuji Terayama

Cast Yoshio Harada · Isao Kimura · Sen Hara · Kaoru Yachigusa

Direction Shuji Terayama

Cast Tsutomu Yamazaki · Mayumi Ogawa · Yoshio Harada · Yôko Takahashi

Plot In a tale that is visually stunning in certain segments, director Shuji Terayama (who died before this movie was released) has woven a spell of magic and social reprobation around...

Direction Shuji Terayama

Cast Hiroshi Mikami · Takeshi Wakamatsu · Keiko Niitaka · Jūzō Itami

Plot In this 50-minute avant-garde film based on a story by the surrealist writer Kyoka Izumi, director Shuji Terayama uses the pretext of a young man’s determination to recover the lyrics...

Direction Shuji Terayama

Cast Keiko Niitaka · Yoko Ran · Kyôko Iida · Namiko Tainaka

Plot A dreamlike portrayal of a hangover after a decadent party.

Direction Shuji Terayama

Cast Goro Abashiri · Tarô Apollo · Shiro Demaemochi · Mitsufumi Hashimoto

Plot A group of pre-pubescent children clad in military uniforms rebel against their parents and begin hunting adults. A choir of schoolgirls strips while singing 'when I grow up to be...

Direction Shuji Terayama

Direction Shuji Terayama

Cast Keiko Niitaka · Yoko Ran · Sueshi Sasada

Direction Shuji Terayama

Cast Goro Abashiri · Tarô Apollo · Shiro Demaemochi · Mitsufumi Hashimoto

Plot A group of pre-pubescent children clad in military uniforms rebel against their parents and begin hunting adults. A choir of schoolgirls strips while singing 'when I grow up to be...

Direction Shuji Terayama

Cast Eiko Kujo · Mr. Nippon · Yoshihiro Tachiki · Ken Takeuchi

Plot With a bunch of experimental symbols such as skinny human body, clock and goat flow from one scene to another, the film explores the question of whether a man is...

Direction Shuji Terayama

Cast Isabelle Illiers · Klaus Kinski · Arielle Dombasle · Sayoko Yamaguchi

Direction Walerian Borowczyk · Just Jaeckin · Shuji Terayama

Cast Roland Blanche · Laura Gemser · Catherine Gandois · Marpessa Djian

Plot Three stories. A solitary sailor falls from his boat and washes ashore on a tropical island. While seeking rescue, he's found by a nearly naked woman who is playful and...

Direction Shuji Terayama

Cast Henrikku Morisaki · Masahiro Saito · Sueshi Sasada

Direction Shuji Terayama

Plot This sumptuous-yet-austere liberal re-working of Cien años de soledad by Gabriel García Márquez, arranged on a five-part stage surrounded by the audience, was historically the latest production of Tenjo Sajiki.

Direction Shuji Terayama

Cast Bunta Sugawara · Kentarô Shimizu

Plot A young boxer accidentally kills an ex-boxing champion's brother. He then approaches the ex-champ to train him to become the next champion.

Direction Shuji Terayama

Plot One of Terayama's first works filmed in 16 mm in 1960.

Direction Shuji Terayama

Direction Shuji Terayama

Cast Toshihiko Hino · Keiko Niitaka · Takeshi Wakamatsu · Momo Yaguchi

Plot In this Borgesian satire on knowledge and technology, bibliophilic desire leads to the construction of a pedal-powered reading machine. Resembling a combination of gymnastic contraption, printing press and early cinematic...

Direction Shuji Terayama

Cast Koichi Makigami · Kyôko Takami

Plot Depicts the collapse of western civilization as a free-form collage advocating group anarchy and actor improvisation. The stage is a boxing ring. Those actors who are "onstage" get into the...

Direction Shuji Terayama

Cast Setsuko Fujino · Yoko Ran · Megumi Tanaka

Plot Visions of characters by the seaside from one's memory are erased by the filmmaker's hand.