Grass Labyrinth
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Grass Labyrinth is a Japanese film directed by Shūji Terayama which was released in France in 1979 and in Japan in 1983.
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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.
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Cast
- Hiroshi Mikami as Akira (as a boy)
- Takeshi Wakamatsu as Akira (as a man)
- Keiko Niitaka as Mother
- Juzo Itami as Principal / Priest / Old man
- Miho Fukuya as Girl
- Masaharu Satō
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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.
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