An Attempt to Describe the Measure of a Man

02/02/1978

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0hr 19min

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STORY

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.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Toshihiko Hino
  • Momo Yaguchi

    Director

  • Shūji Terayama

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • Tenjo Sajiki

    Production Countries

  • Japan

LANGUAGES

  • No Language