Shuji Terayama

[Peter Larson]

I went through the same thing when writing a paper on Terayama for
university. There is precious NOTHING in English on his film or stage
work. I managed to find some things in German, which I would be happy to
dig up and send to you, assuming you read German.

His mother has some sort of ban on presenting his works in English until
they can ALL be presented in once as a huge box set. As anyone could
tell you, Terayama's output was HUGE so that the project would be
financially impossible. It's really sad, because Terayama's work is
little known in the English speaking world (he is certainly known in
Germany, France, and the former Yugoslavia). 

I would very much love to discuss Terayama's films, if you would like to
discuss off or on list, BY ALL MEANS, please do. Terayama is one of
Japan's most underrecognized (in the English speaking world) treasures.

I had the pleasure of visiting the Terayama museum in Misawa once, I
highly recommend anyone to go there. It's incredibly out of the way, but
worth it.

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
[mailto:owner-KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu] On Behalf Of Andrew
Grant
Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2004 8:06 PM
To: KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
Subject: Shuji Terayama

Hello all --

I am writing an article about four films by Shuji Terayama:

Emperor Tomato Ketchup
Throw Away Your Books,Rally in the Streets
Pastoral: To Die in the Country
Farewell to the Ark

I've not had much luck while doing research for this article (i.e., have
not
found much in the way of analysis of these films in English) and was
wondering if any member(s) of the list would be willing to discuss them
with
me. Much has been written about his poetry and his theater work, but
sadly
little about the films, especially the two early ones. I won't bore the
rest
of the list with my questions/observations, some of which I'm afraid are
terribly naive.

Thanks.

Andrew Grant