Shūji Terayama Movies

A union-busting Yokohama dockworker learns that the loyalties that rule his life are based on shaky foundations. Believing that his manager was...

Yukichi Matsumoto's 2013 stage adaptation of Shuji Terayama's "Lemmings". Two cooks share a room, one of which talks with his mother's head: it lives...

Amidst the 1960 Japanese-American mutual security treaty, alienated young nihilist Takuya struggles to find his footing between his do-nothing wealth...

A man claiming to be the heir of an estate in northern japan finds himself at the doors of his mansion, only to find it overrun by servants and maids...

Using bluescreen video techniques, Terayama playfully—and with a silent film theatricality—posits a series of postmodern vignettes...

This sumptuous-yet-austere liberal re-working of Cien años de soledad by Gabriel García Márquez, arranged on a five-part stage...

This second version of the play follows Wan and Tsu, two apprentice cooks who, as they eavesdrop on their neighbors one day, are shocked by the...

Three showgirls playfully mock the audience for attending a projection of an art film.

A “reading film” of delirious image and text, Les chants de Maldoror takes its title and inspiration from Comte de...

A pilot crash-lands in the African wilds, and loses his memory. He finds an old man living in the jungle with his grand-daughter. He falls in love...

An experimental fantasy short dedicated to questioning whether or not man is a prisoner of time.

Paper-Scissor-Rock wars draws an episode where the two generals portray the Second World War, mostly through the rock-scissors-bag, but also by some...

Documentary about the relationships between mothers and their children.

A naval officer makes love to his wife while his son, the director of the film, watches them.

Shûji Terayama's commercial for the Japanese Racing Association.

#47 functions as a quick analysis on the life of Shuji Terayama. This is the beginning, middle and restart on the life of a man who refused to die -...

A dreamlike portrayal of a hangover after a decadent party.

The documentary to find the "true Shuji Terayama".