Tenjo Sajiki performances on the ed2k-network

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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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