Historical photos of Tenjo Sajiki in France

As unlikely as it may have seemed, these have surfaced, courtesy of our dear friends at EigaGoGo!:

http://eigagogo.free.fr/Articles/Terayama_France/terayama_france.htm

Morisaki's interview in English

Henrikku Morisaki's interview of October 12, 2008 at Cinema Nova in Brussels has now been translated into English:

http://eigagogo.free.fr/Personnes/Morisaki_Henrikku/Morisaki[EN].htm

He speaks extensively about Terayama and Tenjo Sajiki.

And a little butoh...

Another grotesque rarity from the same time/place/milieu...
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Summer Storm
(Tatsumi Hijikata, 1973)

夏の嵐 (土方巽, 1973)



ed2k: Summer Storm.avi
ed2k: English subtitles.srt

A legendary 1973 performance by the butoh founder Tatsumi Hijikata. The historical footage appears to have been shot at 18.5 frames-per-second (yes, such frame rates have been practiced on amateur film cameras, according to the Internet) and on 8mm film... genuine underground, you know!..

Rare artifacts from 1960es

These rare materials have little to do with Terayama, but they belong to the same (exciting!) epoch in the history of Japanese art.

The two surrealist shorts (Pupu by Motoharu Jonouchi, and Sa-in by Masao Adachi) are often mentioned in historical accounts of Japanese underground cinema, but almost never seen. Luckily, they have recently surfaced on the net.

Tamotsu Yato's photo albums are a fine and idiosyncratic example of Japanese homoerotic photography, produced in collaboration with Yukio Mishima.

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Pūpū (Motoharu Jōnouchi, 1960)
プ－プ－ (城之内元晴, 1960)

ed2k: pupu.avi


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Sa-in aka The Blocked Vagina
(Masao Adachi, 1963)

鎖陰 (足立正生, 1963)

ed2k: sain.avi


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Tamotsu Yatō - 矢頭保

ed2k: Young Samurai.rar
ed2k: Naked Festival.rar
ed2k: OTOKO.rar

3 photo albums: Young Samurai: Bodybuilders of Japan (体道：日本のボディビルダーたち), Naked festival: A Photo-Essay (裸祭り) and OTOKO: Photo-Studies of the Young Japanese Male.

ATG posters

A wonderful gallery of original Art Theatre Guild posters:

http://eigagogo.free.fr/Articles/ATG/atg_10.htm
http://eigagogo.free.fr/Articles/ATG/atg_11.htm
http://eigagogo.free.fr/Articles/ATG/atg_12.htm

...with a few entries for Terayama's films, of course!



Happy 2009 to all!

Kan Mikami @ Cinema Nova

Huge thanks to Cinema Nova and deep bows to Mikami-san!



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Terayama @ Cinema Nova

A little piece of local Terayama-related news: there's been a wonderful Terayama retrospective at the iconic Cinema Nova here in Brussels:

http://www.nova-cinema.org/prog/107/nova107.pdf

They've managed to obtain subtitled prints for a few feature films from Japan Foundation. However the highlight event has certainly been the screening of a few experimental shorts whose prints came from a private collection of Terayama's assistant director/designer/sound manager and occasional Tenjo Sajiki actor Henrik Morisaki (森崎偏陸)... this guy:



In the best traditions of Tenjo Sajiki, during the projection of Laura, Morisaki (who originally starred in the movie) jumped in through a slot in the screen and then (after being abused on-screen by the girls) jumped out stark-naked (sic!). Likewise, the projection of Der Prozess was finished off with hammering a few hundred nails into the blank screen by the audience. The occasion was quite unique (outside of Japan, at least) in its revival of the spirit of audience participation so characteristic of Tenjo Sajiki... On November 22, Cinema Nova promises to bring Tenjo Sajiki's orgasmic folk-songster Kan Mikami to Brussels:



It's great to see the Terayama phenomenon catching up. There have been a few retrospectives in Europe recently, one in Hong Kong and one in Bangkok:

http://dkfilmhouse.blogspot.com/2008/03/bizarre-world-of-shuji-terayama.html



PS: The walls of Cinema Nova have been decorated with print-outs of images, some of which must have come from this blog ;-) Oh well, I could only wish Terayama media resources to be available in better quality than tiny online JPEGs... Godspeed!..

PPS: A French translation of Morisaki's interview at Nova can be found here.