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Terayama’s last completed work in any medium was an exchange of video letters with the poet Tanikawa Shuntaro (known, amongst other things, as the Japanese translator of Mother Goose).
In his last major work, Terayama returned to his original medium: poetry. Through a series of video exchanges with the poet Tanikawa Shuntaro, personal images, newspaper cuttings, notes and Polaroid snapshots are shared.
Shūji Terayama (寺山 修司, Terayama Shūji, December 10, 1935 – May 4, 1983) was a Japanese avant-garde poet, artist, dramatist, writer, film director, and photographer. His works range from radio drama, experimental television, underground ( Angura ) theatre, countercultural essays, to Japanese New Wave and "expanded" cinema.
Jul 21, 2023 · The result is a work of “angry young man” cinema that foreshadows Quadrophenia (1979) and Mike Leigh’s Naked (1993), that cuts deep. Terayama shows us the state of disaffected youth after the failure of the sixties revolutionary dream.
Poet, playwright, novelist, photographer, sports critic, filmmaker and cultural agent provocateur Shuji Terayama (1935-1983) was among the most broadly influential and innovative figures active in the post-WWII Japanese avant-garde.
It has been 40 years since Terayama Shuji – who was active in many fields, including haiku, tanka, poetry, novels and plays, and also as a theater company leader, film direction, lyricist and horseracing critic – passed away at the young age of 47.
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Jun 15, 2023 · Although one of them (Catology) is considered to be lost now, Terayama’s enigmatic 1964 work The Cage has been perfectly preserved. Those who are familiar with the unique chromatic frameworks and experimental fervour Terayama incorporated in his later features like Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets will immediately connect with The ...
