Screenplay: Rio Kishida

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 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 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 Akio Jissoji

Cast Yasumi Hara · Renji Ishibashi · Seiran Li · Kimiaki Makino

Direction Shuji Terayama

Cast Keiko Niitaka · Yoko Ran · Takeshi Wakamatsu

Synopsis Shuji Terayama and J.A.Seazer’s phantasmagoric folk-psych-symph-prog-rock opera. Historical Tenjo Sajiki performance from 1978.

Direction Shusuke Kaneko

Cast Eri Miyajima · Tomoko Otakara · Miyuki Nakano · Eri Fukatsu

Synopsis The story concerns three friends who have remained at their boarding school over the summer break in order to further their studies independently. One boy is missing from the group, having recently committed suicide. A complicating factor in their interactions...

Direction Nobuhiko Ôbayashi

Cast Keiko Kishi · Yuriko Ishida · Toshiya Fujita · Toshiyuki Nagashima

Direction Nobuhiko Ôbayashi

Cast Yuki Saito · Kin'ya Aikawa · Toshinori Omi · Toshie Negishi

Direction Akio Jissoji

Cast Kotobuki Hananomoto · Janet Hatta · Saburo Shinoda · Ryo Tamura

Synopsis Nagare, a painter who wanted to commit a lover’s suicide with Mizue, the wife of his friend and patron Takigawa. Growing afraid at the last moment, he doesn’t go through with it – but Mizue sinks to the bottom of...

Direction Tatsumi Kumashiro

Cast Ayako Yoshimura · Yuya Uchida · Mon Muso · Minako Mizushima

Synopsis 17 year old Saki lives in a run-down s hack with mom who survives by pushing a food cart from dawn to dusk. Saki has dropped out of school, and when she's not helping her mother sell noodles in the...