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.

• Shūji TerayamaDirector · Screenplay
• Rio KishidaScreenplay
• Eiko KujoProducer
• Tatsuo SuzukiDirector of Photography

Release date

February 2, 1978

Status

Released

Original language

Japanese

Runtime

19m

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