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草迷宮

草迷宮 (1979)

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In this 50-minute avant-garde film based on a story by the surrealist writer Kyoka Izumi, director Shuji Terayama uses the pretext of a young man’s determination to recover the lyrics and music to a song he loved in his childhood in an exploration of widely variant perceptions of reality. 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 adulthood, he wants to find the origins of the song. The young man ostensibly wanders into a time-warp in which aspects from his childhood and adulthood mix together. In this never-never land he comes across a beautiful woman/witch who is lost inside the labyrinth of her mansion, just as the young man is lost in the labyrinth of time — and on some levels, perhaps the labyrinth of his subconscious.

Updated May 19 2020

Releases:

US -
1979-11-03
FR -
1979-01-01
JP -
1979-01-01
US -
1979-11-03

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FACTS

Runtime: 50 mins Rating: 7.9
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Cast

Hiroshi Mikami
Hiroshi Mikami
Akira as a boy
Juzo Itami
Juzo Itami
Principal / Priest / Old man
Keiko Niitaka
Keiko Niitaka
Mother
Takeshi Wakamatsu
Takeshi Wakamatsu
Akira as a man
Miho Fukuya
Miho Fukuya
Girl

Crew

Tatsuo Suzuki
Tatsuo Suzuki
Director of Photography
Tomoyo Oshima
Tomoyo Oshima
Editor
Shūji Terayama
Shūji Terayama
Director
Shūji Terayama
Shūji Terayama
Writer
Kyoka Izumi
Kyoka Izumi
Original Story
Rio Kishida
Rio Kishida
Writer
Shinji Sômai
Shinji Sômai
Assistant Director
J.A. Seazer
J.A. Seazer
Music

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