Grass Labyrinth

Grass Labyrinth
Kusa Meikyū (草迷宮)
Directed by Shūji Terayama
Starring Juzo Itami
Distributed by Toei Company (Japan)
Release dates
  • 1979 (1979)

(France)

  • November 12, 1983 (1983-11-12)

(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

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]

References

  1. 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.
  2. 報知映画賞ヒストリー (in Japanese). Cinema Hochi. Retrieved 2010-01-25.

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