Grass Labyrinth
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Director Shuji Terayama Story by Kyoka Izumi Country FranceJapan | 7.6/10 IMDb Genre Short, Fantasy, Romance Duration Language Japanese | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date 1979 (1979)(France)November 12, 1983 (1983-11-12)(Japan) Writer Kyoka Izumi (story), Rio Kishida, Shuji Terayama Cast (Akira as a boy), Takeshi Wakamatsu (Akira as a man), Keiko Niitaka (Mother), (Principal / Priest / Old man), Miho Fukuya (Girl)Screenplay Shuji Terayama, Rio Kishida Similar movies Related Shuji Terayama movies | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Grass Labyrinth (草迷宮, Kusa meikyū) is a Japanese film directed by Shūji Terayama which was released in France in 1979 and in Japan in 1983.
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Plot
A surreal excursion into a young man's subconscious as he searches for the words to a tune that his mother may have sung to him as a child. The dreamlike images culminate in a scene of a girl's naked body covered with calligraphic characters.
Cast
Release
Grass Labyrinth was originally one of the installments in a French movie package called Private Collections, the other two sections being directed by Walerian Borowczyk and Just Jaeckin, both associated with avant-garde films with strong sexual content. Grass Labyrinth was the longest of the three and was later (1983) released as a separate film in Japan.
Awards and nominations
8th Hochi Film Award
References
Grass Labyrinth WikipediaGrass Labyrinth IMDb Grass Labyrinth themoviedb.org