Shūji Terayama Movies

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

A young reporter falls for a beautiful waitress, but fate conspires against their burgeoning romance when the latter is involved in a car accident...

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...

Documentary about the relationships between mothers and their children.

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...

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...

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...

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

A dreamlike portrayal of a hangover after a decadent party.

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.

Shûji Terayama's commercial for the Japanese Racing Association.

A surrealist work of psychosexual intensity in which the motif of the nail remains deliberately ambiguous: endless hammering, a phallic presence,...

"La Marie-Vison" tells the perversely fascinating tale of Marie, a transvestite prostitute who lives in elegant squalor with her dedicated servant....

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

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

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...