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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.
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.
Poet, playwright and avant-garde filmmaker maudit, Terayama Shuji was both infamous and ubiquitous in late 60s and 70s Japan. Tony Rayns recalls a legend.
An acclaimed filmmaker, poet, radio and stage dramatist, essayist, photographer and horseracing tipster (with no less than eight volumes of commentary to his name) Terayama was, in the words of theatre critic Akihiko Senda, ‘the eternal avant-garde’.
These 10 provocative Shuji Terayama films are a must-watch for any Ren Hang fan — and any fan of groundbreaking cinema. In his first major film, Terayama questions the hypocrisy of mainstream society, where sexuality is perceived as immoral and perverse, but war and genocide are acceptable.
Jul 21, 2023 · Shuji Terayama was born in 1935 and was raised in the northern countryside of Aomori prefecture. He began attracting notice as a poet while still in high school and attended Waseda University in Tokyo where he composed verse in the traditional style of Japanese poetry known as tanka.
Mar 23, 2012 · Shūji Terayama was a child of postwar devastation, occupation and subsequent economic expansion markedly different to Japan after the ‘economic bubble’. Terayama’s works range in media from radio drama, experimental television, underground (Angura) theatre and countercultural critique to Japanese New Wave and expanded cinema. His art and ...
