Shuji Terayama

This cult B&W Japanese film from the 1970s analyzes the result of a colony in which children overthrow the control of their parents and attempt to form a new society. Their plan spirals out of control and they are soon lost in a web of sexual deviation and violence... (IMDB Comments)

The film is about a young Terayama who appears in whiteface along with his mother. The young Terayama deals with his sexual hang-ups due to the onset of puberty. He also slowly drifts away from his clinging mother. (imdb)

Finished shooting in 1962, the movie's cast was almost the same as its crew. With a bunch of experimental symbols such as skinny human body, clock and goat flow from one scene to another, the film explores the question of whether a man is a prisoner of time. (imdb)

A girl loves an older man. He demands that she goes in a brothel, as evidence that she loves him. (imdb)

In this highly political Japanese film, a family's disintegration is shown as an analogy for the Japanese descent into heartless materialism. Though his family members have resigned themselves to their downward spiral both socially and economically, the son of the household has not. He is ambitious to attain something and to strike out on his own. What happens instead is that he grows increasingly disillusioned about his life and his world. (allmovie.com)

Three controversial arthouse/erotic film directors come together to make an anthology. (imdb)

In this 40-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..... (Eleanor Mannikka)

In a tale that is visually stunning in certain segments, director Shuji Terayama (who died before this movie was released) has woven a spell of magic and social reprobation around the forbidden love of two cousins. Su-e and her cousin Sutekichi, a descendant of one of the village clans, live together but have been forbidden by her father to have sexual contact. Like other villagers, he believes that if cousins have children together, the children will suffer serious birth defects. (All Movie Guide)

A segment of Emperor Tomato Ketchup.

Presents different images in which the idea of the cinema collapses on the screen. (BFI)

An eastern flavor of avant-garde surrealism.

In mid-career, while he is on a winning streak, and in the middle of a fight he is winning, a young boxer is revolted by the violence of the game. He allows himself to be beaten up and quits the match and the sport. He also leaves his wife and child and lives alone with his moth-eaten old dog, all the while losing his sight. Years later, he is hunted down by a young man who is ambitious to become a prize-winning boxer.... (KG)

Originally made for the 100 Feet Film Festival hosted by Image Forum. However, to test the limits, Terayama Shuji willfully made use of 3 projectors to project 300 feet of film at the same time. (imdb)

In the heady and extremist Japanese art scene of the late '70s, Terayama created a number of unforgettable and highly controversial short films. This is a short movie Terayama's Experimental Image World. (MUBI)

This 3 min short film is a portrait of Terayama's missing father who died at the end of Pacific War in Indonesia in September 1945 when the author was 10 years old. The film runs as a one-take silent superimposition of images.

The girls are insulting the audience, constantly saying things like "You pretend to watch art films, but we know you're here for tits & ass, fuck you" etc. (ubu.com)

A man is seen driving a nail through the middle of a town square, the film ends with nails being driven through the screen. (BFI)

Navy, waves, a woman, and the eraser...

Shūji Terayama's 27-minute attempt to visualize the Comte de Lautreamont's "Les Chants de Maldoror", a series of hallucinatory and disturbing prose-poems which were a big influence on the Dada-ists and early Surrealists... (letterboxd.com)

A fantasy of a man falling in love with a woman.

In the beginning, the film is a cosmos made of light and shadow. (arsenal-berlin.de)

A tiny book, a massize book that requires a machine to operate, and many normal sized books. Somebody walks with a book attached to his face. (deeperintomovies.net)