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In the Mist of a Moral Revolution: Shuji Terayama and his Utopia

By: Edwin N

“It is not right that everyone should read the pages which follow;
only a few will be able to savour this bitter fruit with impunity.”
- Lautréamont (1846-1870)

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John

16Nov10

Good Humor Man: I discovered Terayama through bootleg copies. There was a site that specialized in fansubbing hard-to-find Japanese New Wave films, and I found many directors like that. He turned out to be my favorite. And yes, Pastoral: To Die in the Country is one of the great films. Martin Scorsese is right in liking it.

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Jack Lehtonen

27Sep10

I've been wanting to see this man's films for so long now!

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Edwin N

7Aug10

I personally discovered Shuji Terayama when I went to a 'The Mother and the Whore' screening in Beirut two years ago in the presence of the 'Cahiers du Cinema' chief editor Jean-Michel Frodon who analyzed the film after it was over.He assimilated Eustache's ideologies to those of Terayama, and the name eluded me. Later, I was reading Comte de Lautreamont's 'Chants of Maldoror' and in the introduction they mentioned the name of Terayama(who directed a highly personal version of the book) and in 2009, the Beirut Art Center did a retrospective of his work thanks to Jean-Michel Frodon and Lebanese film critic Philippe Azouri along with the projection of some of Yoshida and Suzuki's works.

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Good Humor Man

7Aug10

Nice List, men. i want ask a question for everyone, how do you know "Shuji Terayama"? Cuz, most of my Japanese cinema friends have never seen his film and also Non-Japanese friends and i think Terayama's works have never issued on DVD or VHS on outside Japan. So, Terayama's works are petty hard to find and see on the outside of Japan even in Japan too. From just my curiosity, Please write your Terayama experience.

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