Grass Labyrinth
| Grass Labyrinth | |
|---|---|
| Kusa Meikyū (草迷宮) | |
| Directed by | Shūji Terayama |
| Starring | Juzo Itami |
| Distributed by | Toei Company (Japan) |
Release dates |
(France)
(Japan) |
Running time | 50 minutes |
| Country |
France Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
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.
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.[1]
Cast
- Hiroshi Mikami as Akira (as a boy)
- Takeshi Wakamatsu as Akira (as a man)
- Keiko Niitaka as Mother
- Juzo Itami as Principal / Priest / Old man
- Miho Fukuya as Girl
- Masaharu Satō
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.[1]
Awards and nominations
- Won: Best Actor - Juzo Itami
References
- 1 2 Sharp, Jasper (2008). Behind the Pink Curtain: The Complete History of Japanese Sex Cinema. Guildford: FAB Press. p. 197. ISBN 978-1-903254-54-7.
- ↑ 報知映画賞ヒストリー (in Japanese). Cinema Hochi. Retrieved 2010-01-25.
External links
- Grass Labyrinth at the Internet Movie Database
- 草迷宮 at the Japanese Movie Database (Japanese)