Shuji Terayama

[Andrew Grant]

Peter --

Thanks so much for your reply. Yes, any material in German would be fine.

Interesting fact about his mother. (Is she still alive?) Fortunately, I have
3 of the 4 films with English subtitles, but there are still many unanswered
questions.

I'll contact you at your email address. Thanks again.

Andrew

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peter Larson" <bulb at tc3net.com>
To: <KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 2:13 AM
Subject: RE: Shuji Terayama


> 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
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