Grass Labyrinth

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.

Grass Labyrinth
Kusa Meikyū (草迷宮)
Directed byShūji Terayama
StarringJuzo Itami
Distributed byToei Company (Japan)
Release dates
  • 1979 (1979) (France)
  • November 12, 1983 (1983-11-12) (Japan)
Running time
40 minutes
CountriesFrance
Japan
LanguageJapanese

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. 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. Archived from the original on 2011-03-25. Retrieved 2010-01-25.


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