Shūji Terayama Movies

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

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...

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

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

The documentary to find the "true Shuji Terayama".

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

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...

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...