An Attempt to Describe the Measure of a Man
Using bluescreen video techniques, Terayama playfully—and with a silent film theatricality—posits a series of postmodern vignettes featuring realities-within-realities as his protagonist attempts some kind of relationship with a nude woman on the screen-within-the-screen. In his struggles to “free” her, he exposes the absurd flimsiness, deceptiveness and mutability of both the cinema experience and our human dimension.
Release Date
February 2, 1978Runtime
19 minDirected by
Shūji TerayamaScreenplay by
Shūji Terayama, Rio KishidaLanguage
JapaneseBudget
$0Revenue
$0Status
ReleasedCast
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