An Attempt to Describe the Measure of a Man

02/02/1978 19m

An Attempt to Describe the Measure of a Man (1978)

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Overview

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 Terayama

Director

Shūji Terayama

Screenplay

Rio Kishida

Screenplay