Shūji Terayama — Director (32)
身毒丸 (1978) [Movie] TMDB
身毒丸
director: 寺山修司 actor: 新高恵子 / Yoko Ran
身毒丸少年丧母,他终日沉浸在怀念母亲的悲痛之中。父亲为了家庭,从妓院买回来妓女抚子担任孩子们的继母,抚子带着领养的孩子千代一起进入了这个家庭。抚子努力维系这个家,然身毒丸过于执迷过去,对这个继母始终心怀敌意,母子之间的隔阂 逐渐加深。最终,忍无可忍的抚子通过诅咒弄瞎了身毒丸的双眼,而逃出家门的身毒丸为了报复继母,杀害了无血缘关系的弟弟千代。父亲因无法承受巨大的打击而去世。家破人亡后,身毒丸悔不当初,最终与继母冰释前嫌,以恋人的身份生活下去。
奴婢训 (1978) [Movie] Douban
director: 寺山修司 actor: 天井桟敷实验剧团 (Tenjo Sajiki experimental theater)
other title: Nuhikun (日文)
it was interesting to see the acrobatic Japanese actors of the Tenjosajiki company in Shuji Terayama’s Directions to servants. The title and some of the text were taken from Swift’s satire, but the main inspiration seemed to come from Genet’s Les bonnes. Multiplying the maids into a large cast of servants, male and female, who take it in turns to imitate the master, Tereyama has physicalized and partly mechanized the action. Domination is imposed partly through machines—we see a man submitting to an imperious voice on a tape recorder, lowering his trousers and climbing inside a sadistic machine that beats his bare buttocks.
The ingenuity, the sadism and the offbeat humour are all characteristic of the production. The main cruelty to the audience was in the over-amplification of J.A. Seazer’s music. I sat with my hands over my ears for a lot of the time. The visual assault was almost equally strong, and some of the theatrical imagery was quite unlike anything that had been seen in this country. In one meticulously choreographed sequence the servant playing at being master throws a bone to a succession of servants who play at being dogs. In another, a servant trying to steal food from a cupboard is terrified to find that it is like a puzzle: each panel conceals a face that sings at him accusingly, and he can silence it only by sliding a panel that reveals another singing face.
Tenjo Sajiki: The Hunchback of Aomori (1983) [Movie] Douban
青森県のせむし男
director: 寺山修司 / 天井栈敷实验剧团 actor: 天井栈敷实验剧团
other title: 青森县的驼背男 / 青森県のせむし男
This poor, deformed boy was a hungry thief, made the sex-xlave of a haughty dominatrix Matsu, herself a former servant who had been raped by the master's son. Now old and rich, she seeks a replacement for her abandoned (and assumed dead) hunchback infant son. While denying incest, she humiliates and rapes him, getting extra pleasure by painfuly manipulating his hump. This "tomb of flesh" was the visible answer to the pregnant girl's prater to mark her hated, unborn child.
The virginal Minstreal is also in love with the hunchback. He tells her "I'll always be a stranger, existing only for others. Always feared, a mere object of interest, until finaly, I'll be a laughingstock... I'm like the one who's 'it' in hide-and-seek. I chase them and they run away laughing. He remembers childhood dreams of incestuous or forbidden lust. Since the town's birth records were mysteriously stolen the truth of the susbected incest in unknowable. However, rumors persist that the baby, like the defomed and abandoned Oedipus, was saved by the servant ordered to desert him. These and other rumors are whispered by a chorus of ancient hags and crippled, male masseurs.
The hunchback is depicted as the ultimate outcast: born of rape, abandoned, deprived of his inheritance, despited, sexualy desired, and abused, and finaly murdered. Two women, one his grotesque, sexualy depraved mother (described as "an aging bride"), the other a virginal, young minstrel wearing a middy blouse (described as "a girl student"), fight viciously over his body and his memory.
The play also works as an extended metaphor or allegory for Japan's relationship with the West, especialy America. Like the poor servant raped by her rich master, and also like her deformed, despited child, modern Japan was an innocent youth which desired and feared the powerful, rich West. Hating yet desiring the rapist, Japan became a grotesque parody of the West, learning the worst lessons of sadistic imperialism, militarism and colonialism. The atomic holocaust - a final gift of contamination from the idolized/demonized rapist - created another deformed baby, a living tomb of memories, a tomb of twisted flesh. The abandoned, hunchbacked child re-emerged as the global outcast, the atomic-contamined pariah, the child of rape and incest, filled with self loathing, lacking identity, simultaneously loving and hating the parent-rapist.
Private Collections (1979) [Movie] TMDB IMDb Douban WikiData
Collections privées
other title: Collections privées / 性‧愛‧慾
Three stories. A solitary sailor falls from his boat and washes ashore on a tropical island. While seeking rescue, he's found by a nearly naked woman who is playful and compliant. He decides to erase his signs of distress and remain on the island. What awaits? In the second, an adolescent searches for the words of a nursery rime he remembers bits of. His journey takes him into dreams, sexual awakening, and Oedipal fantasy. Third, a man of wealth in late-nineteenth century Paris hires a prostitute for the night. She's also cabaret performer and takes him to her room. He fears he's about to be robbed.
猜拳战争 (2006) [Movie] Douban TMDB
ジャンケン戦争
6.6 (14 ratings) director: 寺山修司 actor: Mitsufumi Hashimoto / Salvador Tari
other title: ジャンケン戦争 / Janken sensô
谁是主人谁是将军,谁想施政谁要受刑,都要在残酷的猜拳战争中定输赢。片中暗示权力运作的本质,都是来自一套荒谬的猜拳的战争理论。
旅鼠 (1983) [Movie] Douban
レミング
7.6 (5 ratings) director: 寺山修司 actor: 天井桟敷实验剧团 (Tenjo Sajiki experimental theater)
other title: レミング / レミング (日文)
毛皮瑪莉 (1983) [Movie] Douban TMDB
毛皮瑪莉
8.8 (6 ratings) director: 寺山修司 actor: 天井桟敷
other title: 天井桟敷・寺山修司・毛皮之玛丽 / Tenjo Sajiki: La Marie-vison
This is a Shuji Terayama memorial performance of his play La Marie-vison (Mink Marie) by the Tenjo Sajiki theater troupe, featuring Akihiro Miwa in the title role.
Marie is a transvestite who lives in a hen house. He tells his story to a butterfly.
100 Years of Solitude (1981) [Movie] Douban TMDB
百年の孤独
director: 寺山修司 actor: 天井栈敷
other title: 百年孤独 / 百年の孤独
This sumptuous-yet-austere liberal re-working of Cien años de soledad by Gabriel García Márquez, arranged on a five-part stage surrounded by the audience, was historically the latest production of Tenjo Sajiki. It is also something of a theater prequel to Terayama's last film, Farewell to the Ark.
疱疮谭 (2006) [Movie] Douban
疱瘡譚
8.0 (7 ratings) director: 寺山修司 actor: 新高恵子 / Yoko Ran
other title: 疱瘡譚
贝纳尔马蒂纳电影节特别奖,柏林电影节特别放映。
生疮就要治理,但有时因为治理而令人生疮。此片不断出现因不同的捆绑而令身体遭到变形及扭曲,呈现出绝妙的变形因果论。
父亲 (1977) [Movie] Douban IMDb
ちち
6.1 (15 ratings) director: 寺山修司
other title: ちち /
寺山修司的实验短片。16MM。3分钟片长。
Labyrinth Tale (1975) [Movie] Douban TMDB
迷宮譚
8.2 (17 ratings) director: 寺山修司 actor: 新高恵子 / 兰妖子
other title: 迷宫谭 / 迷宮譚
奥巴哈乌震实验电影节银奖。戛纳电影节导演周招待作品。
利用简单的门道具,展开强烈的超现实视觉之旅,而且影像洋溢诗情,在迷宫的旅程中呈现出极强的感性魔力。
the boxer (1977) [Movie] Douban
ボクサー
7.4 (10 ratings) director: 寺山修司 actor: 菅原文太 / 清水健太郎
other title: 拳师 / ボクサー
足の悪い天馬は、チャンピオンになることを夢見てジムに通っているが、初試合に敗れたためジムは彼を見捨てる。天馬はあきらめきれず元東洋チャンピオンの隼にコーチを頼む。寺山修司初の商業作品だが、随所に寺山らしさを見せる。具志堅用高、白井義男、ファイティング原田、ガッツ石松などが特別出演し、ガッツあふれるファイティング・シーンで魅了する。
The Eraser (1977) [Movie] Douban
消しゴム
8.2 (12 ratings) director: 寺山修司 actor: 藤野节子 / 兰妖子
other title: 橡皮 / 消しゴム
被哀伤往事缠绕心头 北国之母,利用擦胶去进行一次灭影行动。墨染的影像,淡淡哀伤与激昂节奏交缠的配乐,创造出极度矛盾以及悲伤的意境。
Cloud Cuckooland (1978) [Movie] Douban
Cloud Cuckooland
director: 寺山修司
other title: 浮云杜鹃地
This play, loosely based on Jonathan Swift's satire, was performed at the Mickery by the Japanese theatre group Tenjosajiki (meaning the highest part of the theatre or the gods), founded by Shuji Terayama, a writer playwright, poet and filmmaker. The main characters in the play are servants: a butler, a cook, footman, groom, house-steward, porter, chambermaid, housekeeper and governess. A strange mechanism, the Saint-Master Machine, appears on stage, with the power to change a servant into a master. There is a rumor that the real master is actually disguised among the servants. When the servants try to kill their absent master, their hatred creates a hellish atmosphere. The tragedy is not the absence of the Master, but the servants' need for one.