BÚSQUEDA
In the midst of a match, a successful boxer - Hayato, has had enough of the sport. He lets himself get knocked, quits boxing, leaving his wife and...
Boxer
Three stories. A solitary sailor falls from his boat and washes ashore on a tropical island. While seeking rescue, he's found by a nearly naked woman...
Private Collections
A director faces creative block while working on his latest film - a reimagination of his adolescence growing up in a mountain village in rural Japan.
Pastoral: To Die in the Country
An experimental, psychedelic odyssey through Japanese subculture experienced via the eyes of a disillusioned young man, who must contend with intense...
Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets
A “reading film” of delirious image and text, Les chants de Maldoror takes its title and inspiration from Comte de...
Les chants de Maldoror
An experimental short featuring people and nails.
The Trial
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...
Smallpox Tale
Pinku from 1965.
Dai san no jôji
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...
Grass Labyrinth
A thirty-year-old lesbian virgin sleeps with a man for the first time.
Love Awakening
A surreal, isolated village sees its inhabitants gradually leave behind their mutual traditions and superstitions as they leave for the city. Among...
Farewell to the Ark
A doctor, gynecologist, discover the corpse of his wife. His nurse advises to him to declare her death a simple heart attack, to clear himself...
Perverse Relations
In this Borgesian satire on knowledge and technology, bibliophilic desire leads to the construction of a pedal-powered reading machine. Resembling a...
The Reading Machine
In a Japanese colony, children overthrow their parental guardians and attempt to form a new society. Their plan spirals out of control and they are...
Emperor Tomato Ketchup
The documentary to find the "true Shuji Terayama".
Where is Tomorrow, Shuji Terayama
Three stories of torture, set in Japan's Sengoku, Kan'ei and Genroku eras.
New Torture Punishment History Torture
A girl named O loves a rich, and much older man. She is subjected to a variety of humiliating experiences to prove her unconditional obedience to him...
Fruits of Passion
A dreamlike portrayal of a hangover after a decadent party.
Butterfly
As a family goes on with their day, the shadows on their walls lead a completely different life.
The Woman with Two Heads
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...
The Lemmings
Stage performance by the Tenjo Sajiki troupe.
Directions to Servants
Shuji Terayama and J.A.Seazer's phantasmagoric folk-psych-symph-prog-rock opera. Historical Tenjo Sajiki performance from 1978.
Shintokumaru
After going to prison for killing the boss of the Kanno gang, Seji Iwahashi (Tatsuya Nakadai) gets released early -- only to find that his former...
The Wolves