Shūji Terayama Movies

The documentary to find the "true Shuji Terayama".

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

Stage performance by the Tenjo Sajiki troupe.

The smallpox virus has created its own unique atmosphere in Terayama’s film where the skin of a bandaged adolescent and the surface of the...

This is Shuji Terayama memorial performance of The Hunchback of Aomori from 1983 (featuring Akihiro Miwa). Terayama gathered dwarfs, circus freaks,...

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

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...

Shuji Terayama starts a poem, and then ships his pencil to Herbie Yamaguchi in the UK. Herbie ships the pencil back to Terayama, who then finishes...

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

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...