Grass Labyrinth
1979 French film
- 1979 (1979) (France)
- November 12, 1983 (1983-11-12) (Japan)
Running time
Japan
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
8th Hochi Film Award[2]
- Won: Best Actor – Juzo Itami
References
- ^ a b 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. Archived from the original on 2011-03-25. Retrieved 2010-01-25.
External links
- Grass Labyrinth at IMDb
- 草迷宮 at the Japanese Movie Database (in Japanese)
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Films directed by Shūji Terayama
- Emperor Tomato Ketchup (1971)
- Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets (1971)
- Pastoral: To Die in the Country (1974)
- Grass Labyrinth (1979)
- Fruits of Passion (1981)
- Farewell to the Ark (1984)
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