Film

Grass Labyrinth

1979 · 42m · Drama · Fantasy

IMDb

7.3

Akira is haunted by a "bouncing ball" song that he remembers his mother singing when he was a small child, and now on the verge of a sexually active adulthood, he wants to find the origins of the song. The young man ostensibly wanders into a time-warp in which aspects from his childhood and adulthood mix together. In this never-never land he comes across a beautiful woman/witch who is lost inside the labyrinth of her mansion, just as the young man is lost in the labyrinth of time — and on some levels, perhaps the labyrinth of his subconscious.

Hiroshi Mikami

Young Akira

Takeshi Wakamatsu

Akira

Keiko Niitaka

Mother

Jūzō Itami

Principal / Priest / Old man

Miho Fukuya

Girl

Ryoko Kinoyama

Akiko Suetsugu

Yoko Ran

Yutaka Nemoto

Momoko Yaguchi

Masaharu Saito

Hiromi Kawai

Salvador Tari

Yukiko Hiroshima

Toshihiko Hino

• Shūji TerayamaDirector · Screenplay
• Rio KishidaScreenplay
• Tatsuo SuzukiDirector of Photography
• J.A. SeazerOriginal Music Composer
• Tomoyo OshimaEditor

Release date

November 3, 1979

Status

Released

Original language

Japanese

Runtime

42m

Genres

Drama, Fantasy