Grass Labyrinth

Grass Labyrinth

1979 · 40 min · JA · 7.3 (27 votes)
Dir. Shūji Terayama · Starring Hiroshi Mikami, Takeshi Wakamatsu, Keiko Niitaka, Jūzō Itami, Miho Fukuya, Ryoko Kinoyama · Music J.A. Seazer
DramaRomanceFantasy

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.

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A deeply introspective and visually poetic journey. It feels like wandering through a half-forgotten dream, where past and present blur into a haunting, beautiful, and profoundly personal exploration of memory and self.

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