Issunbōshi o kijutsusuru kokoromi (1977)

Issunbōshi o kijutsusuru kokoromi Poster

19min | Jan 1, 1977 | Released

Using bluescreen video techniques, Terayama playfully—and with a silent film theatricality—posits a series of postmodern vignettes featuring realities-within-realities as his protagonist attempts some kind of relationship with a nude woman on the screen-within-the-screen. In his struggles to “free” her, he exposes the absurd flimsiness, deceptiveness and mutability of both the cinema experience and our human dimension.

Director: Shūji Terayama

Producer: Eiko Kujo

Writer(s): Shūji Terayama Rio Kishida

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