Shūji Terayama Movies

Akira is haunted by a "bouncing ball" song that he remembers his mother singing when he was a small child, and now on the verge of a sexually active...

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

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

A teenage goldsmith with a dark past tragically falls in love with a young nude model.

Easily bored, but still innocent and naive countryside girl discovers partying in Tokyo is a ton of fun. Yakuza-to-be is an acquaintance who tries to...

Shûji Terayama's commercial for the Japanese Racing Association.

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...

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

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...

Lacking a coherent plot, We're All Riding on a Circus Elephant depicts the collapse of western civilization as a free-form collage advocating group...

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

Documentary about the relationships between mothers and their children.

A vengeful contractor hires a series of young killers to target a woman muckraker. Trouble brews when an amateur marksman shows up his eclectic...

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...

A dreamlike portrayal of a hangover after a decadent party.

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

an avant-garde theatrical work and collection of stage poems created by Japanese poet, playwright, and filmmaker Shūji Terayama and his...

He pulls out a pair of scissors that tends toward the sky. So begins his journey through time, space and memory. Seasons change, years pass. Wrapped...