Shūji Terayama Movies

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

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...

Shûji Terayama's commercial for the Japanese Racing Association.

Experimental short film about two men carrying a door.

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...

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

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...