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!



Keywords: 三上寛, 天井桟敷, Brussels, Bruxelles, Brussel, Belgium, Belgique, België, Cinema Nova, live performance, folk, blues, bard, scream, moan, whisper

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.

Akio Jissoji's Mujo

Please download and install eMule to be able to access the media resources referenced below...

For more information about the film, see the midnighteye.com review (CONTAINS SPOILERS!!!).

For more information about the Buddhist doctrine of impermanence (mujo), see the Wikipedia article.

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Mujō 無常 (This Transient Life)




ed2k: Mujo.avi [699.34 Mb]
ed2k: English subtitles.srt [52.9 Kb]
ed2k: Russian subtitles.srt [49.6 Kb]
ed2k: Chinese subtitles.rar [1.29 Mb]
ed2k: Spanish subtitles.srt [53.9 Kb]
ed2k: Korean subtitles.smi [100.1 Kb]

This doesn't have much to do with Terayama or Tenjo Sajiki, but it's still a timeless and little known masterpiece from the Japanese New Wave / ATG that everyone has to watch!!! Akio Jissōji was a spectacular director, who could combine traditional Buddhist art and ethics with electrifying eroticism and intense modern sensibilities in his auteur films (while being successfully engaged at the same time in a number of TV / commercial cinema projects)...



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Keywords: Akio Jissoji 実相寺昭雄, Japanese New Wave, ATG, Art Theatre Guild of Japan, Buddhism, Buddhist, erotic, subversive, incest, dharma, karma, sculpture, art, avant-garde, Kannon, Guan Yin, 觀音, अनित्य anitya, अनिच्चा anicca, མི་​རྟག་​པ་ mi rtag pa, 無常, อนิจจัง; P2P, MPEG4, subtitles, film, movie.

Tenjo Sajiki performances on the ed2k-network

Please download and install eMule to be able to access the media resources referenced below...

For more information on Tenjo Sajiki, you can check the Wikipedia article.

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La Marie-vison
毛皮のマリー




ed2k: La Marie-vison.avi [421.08 Mb]
ed2k: script.pdf [194.3 Kb]

ed2k: Yves Montand - La Marie-vison.mp3 [2.26 Mb]

This is a Shuji Terayama memorial performance of his play La Marie-vison (Mink Marie) by the Tenjo Sajiki theater troupe, featuring Akihiro Miwa in the title role.



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One Hundred Years of Solitude
百年の孤独




ed2k: 100 years of solitude.avi [700.59 Mb]

This sumptuous-yet-austere liberal re-working of Cien años de soledad by Gabriel García Márquez, arranged on a five-part stage surrounded by the audience, was historically the latest production of Tenjo Sajiki. It is also something of a theater prequel to Terayama's last film, Farewell to the Ark.

Like the earlier two ATG films Terayama directed, Saraba hakobune (Farewell to the Ark) was also one part of a larger project. “One-Hundred Years of Solitude” was first performed as a play, the last new play by the Tenjo Sajiki troupe. Performed in a large warehouse, the audience sat on all sides of a central stage that had four smaller satellite stages projected off of its corners. Scenes from the novel took place simultaneously on all stages, forcing the audience to choose between scenes and thereby to partially create the play themselves. This was also the first of Terayama's plays to be professionally filmed, a difficult project given the structure of the performance... (Steve Clarke)

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Shintokumaru (Poison Boy)
身毒丸




ed2k: Shintokumaru.avi [696.59 Mb]

Shuji Terayama and J.A.Seazer's phantasmagoric folk-psych-symph-prog-rock opera. Historical Tenjo Sajiki performance from 1978. A brief synopsis (for a somewhat different version of the play) can be found here:

http://www.tatsuya.phkp.co.uk/works/stage-shintokumaru.html

Much of the symbolism of Shintokumaru is shared with Terayama's earlier masterpiece motion picture Pastoral: to die in the country (also known as Pastoral hide-and-seek).



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The Hunchback of Aomori
青森縣のせむし男




ed2k: The.Hunchback.of.Aomori.avi  [624.27 Mb]
ed2k: script.pdf  [128.5 Kb]

Shuji Terayama memorial performance of The Hunchback of Aomori from 1983 (featuring Akihiro Miwa).



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The Lemmings
レミング




ed2k: The Lemmings.avi [393.92 Mb]

Tenjo Sajiki's Lemmings. Shuji Terayama memorial performance from 1983.

http://www.famousdoor.co.jp/terayama/go ... sv001.html



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Our age comes riding on a circus elephant
時代はサーカスの象にのって




ed2k: Our age comes riding on a circus elephant.avi [805.19 Mb]
ed2k: synopsis.pdf [74.2 Kb]

Terayama's "anti-American" goofball musical performed by Tenjo Sajiki theater.





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Directions to Servants
奴婢訓





ed2k: Directions.to.Servants.avi [639.54 Mb]
ed2k: script.pdf [104.3 Kb]

ed2k: posters.rar [1.34 Mb]




And another (more radical) performance of Directions to Servants at the Mickery Theatre in Amsterdam:

ed2k: Cloud Cuckooland.avi [340.72 Mb]



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Keywords: Shuji Terayama, Tenjo Sajiki, J. A. Seazer, Japanese New Wave, avant-garde, subversive, poetry, folklore, erotic, counter-culture, psychedelic, cinema, theater, stage, drama, comedy, farce, grotesque, Japan, Tokyo, Aomori, Shinjuku, 寺山修司, 天井桟敷; P2P, MPEG4, subtitles, film, movie.

Selected media resources by Shuji Terayama on the ed2k-network

Please download and install eMule to be able to access the media resources referenced below...

For more information on Terayama, you can check the Wikipedia article.

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Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets! (1971)

書を捨てよ、町へ出よう




ed2k: CD1.avi
ed2k: CD2.avi

ed2k: English subtitles.CD1.srt
ed2k: English subtitles.CD2.srt

ed2k: Russian subtitles.CD1.srt
ed2k: Russian subtitles.CD2.srt

ed2k: Chinese subtitles.rar

Teenage angst pastiche from the late 60es - early 70es...



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Pastoral hide-and-seek (1974)

田園に死す




ed2k: Pastoral.avi
ed2k: English subtitles.srt
ed2k: Russian subtitles.srt
ed2k: Chinese subtitles.rar

Terayama's definitive poetic masterpiece, a tour-de-force of magic realism.


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Farewell to the Ark (1984)

さらば箱舟




ed2k: CD1.avi
ed2k: CD2.avi

ed2k: English subtitles.CD1.srt
ed2k: English subtitles.CD2.srt

ed2k: Russian subtitles.CD1.srt
ed2k: Russian subtitles.CD2.srt

ed2k: Chinese subtitles.rar

A very liberal and seriously stunning adaptation of Cien años de soledad by Gabriel García Márquez.



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Video Letter (1983)

寺山修司&谷川俊太郎ビデオ・レター




ed2k: Video Letter.avi
ed2k: English subtitles.srt
ed2k: booklet.djvu

Terayama's poetic, witty and poignant video-correspondence with Tanikawa Shuntarō.




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Photothèque imaginaire de Shuji Terayama - Les gens de la famille Chien Dieu

寺山修司・幻想写真館・犬神家の人々



ed2k: phototeque.rar

Terayama's volume of photography.




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Keywords: Shuji Terayama, Tenjo Sajiki, Shuntaro Tanikawa, J. A. Seazer, Japanese New Wave, avant-garde, subversive, poetry, folklore, erotic, counter-culture, psychedelic, cinema, theater, photo, photography, Japan, Tokyo, Aomori, Shinjuku, 寺山修司, 天井桟敷; P2P, MPEG4, subtitles, film, movie; Тераяма, Тэраяма, Сюдзи, Щуджи, Япония, кино, русские субтитры.