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Grass Labyrinth (草迷宮, Kusa meikyū) is a Japanese film directed by Shūji Terayama which was released in France in 1979 and in Japan in 1983.

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.

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

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.

Awards and nominations

8th Hochi Film Award

• Won: Best Actor – Juzo Itami

References

1. ^ Sharp, Jasper (2008). Behind the Pink Curtain: The Complete History of Japanese Sex Cinema. Guildford: FAB Press. p. 197. ISBN 978-1-903254-54-7.
2. 報知映画賞ヒストリー (in Japanese). Cinema Hochi. Archived from the original on 2011-03-25. Retrieved 2010-01-25.

External links

• Grass Labyrinth at IMDb
• 草迷宮 at the Japanese Movie Database (in Japanese)

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