Shūji Terayama Movies

A “reading film” of delirious image and text, Les chants de Maldoror takes its title and inspiration from Comte de...

The smallpox virus has created its own unique atmosphere in Terayama’s film where the skin of a bandaged adolescent and the surface of the...

Using bluescreen video techniques, Terayama playfully—and with a silent film theatricality—posits a series of postmodern vignettes...

Shûji Terayama's commercial for the Japanese Racing Association.

This is Shuji Terayama memorial performance of The Hunchback of Aomori from 1983 (featuring Akihiro Miwa). Terayama gathered dwarfs, circus freaks,...

Visions of characters by the seaside from one's memory are erased by the filmmaker's hand.

This four-volume boxset released by Image Forum compiles the breadth of Shuji Terayama's experimental short film work into an extensive DVD...

The documentary to find the "true Shuji Terayama".

A naval officer makes love to his wife while his son, the director of the film, watches them.

Shuji Terayama starts a poem, and then ships his pencil to Herbie Yamaguchi in the UK. Herbie ships the pencil back to Terayama, who then finishes...