Screenplay: Shuji Terayama

Direction Shuji Terayama

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

Synopsis 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 captures the internal chaos and uncertainty of a young man...

Direction Shuji Terayama

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

Direction Masahiro Shinoda

Cast Takashi Fujiki · Mariko Kaga · Kyôko Kishida · Tamotsu Hayakawa

Synopsis In Shinoda’s look at codes of obligation, a union-busting Yokohama dockworker learns that the loyalties that rule his life are based on shaky foundations. Believing that his manager was responsible for saving his life as a baby, he falls victim...

Direction Shuji Terayama

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

Synopsis 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 the forbidden love of two cousins. Su-e (Mayumi Ogawa) and...

Direction Shuji Terayama

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

Synopsis 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 and music to a song he loved in his childhood...

Direction Masahiro Shinoda

Cast Shinichiro Mikami · Shima Iwashita · Kayoko Honjo · Hizuru Takachiho

Synopsis This is the film that confirmed Shinoda's status as one of the founders of the Japanese New Wave. Written by the controversial Shûji Terayama (Rally in the Streets), it was also the first of many Shinoda films to feature music...

Direction Susumu Hani

Cast Haruo Asanu · Kazuko Fukuda · Kuniko Ishii · Ichirô Kimura

Synopsis A young couple check into a hotel room to make love for the very first time. The boy Shun is timid and gauche, hiding his face and retreating to the bathroom for a glass of water as the young girl...

Direction Shuji Terayama

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

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

Direction Shuji Terayama

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

Synopsis 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 a whore'. A young man struggles in vain to break...

Direction Shuji Terayama

Direction Shuji Terayama

Cast Keiko Niitaka · Yoko Ran · Sueshi Sasada

Direction Masahiro Shinoda

Cast Tatsuya Nakadai · Suisen Ichikawa · Shima Iwashita · Tetsurô Tanba

Direction Shuji Terayama

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

Synopsis 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 a whore'. A young man struggles in vain to break...

Direction Masahiro Shinoda

Cast Yusuke Kawazu · Shima Iwashita · Ichiro Sugai · Kô Nishimura

Direction Shuji Terayama

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

Synopsis 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 a prisoner of time.

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

Synopsis 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 compliant. He decides to erase his signs of distress and...

Direction Shuji Terayama

Cast Henrikku Morisaki · Masahiro Saito · Sueshi Sasada

Direction Shuji Terayama

Cast Bunta Sugawara · Kentarô Shimizu

Synopsis 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

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