Shūji Terayama Movies

Shûji Terayama's commercial for the Japanese Racing Association.

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

An experimental short featuring people and nails.

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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