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Directions to Servants (1978)
Directed by Shūji Terayama
Comedy · 1h 46m
A man claiming to be the heir of an estate in northern japan finds himself at the doors of his mansion, only to find it overrun by servants and maids playing pretend as master or mistress, while the real master is nowhere to be found. As he makes his way down the many rooms of the mansion and witnesses the staff's strange antics, he gradually loses his own role and sense of identity. In this subversive play performed by Tenjo Sajiki, the spectator is asked to question their own role as hierarchical structures are reversed and walls between character and actor, actor and audience gradually break down.
Cast
Keiko Niitaka
Yoko Ran
Crew
- Director
- Shūji Terayama
- Writer
- Shūji Terayama
Details
- Original title
- 奴婢訓
- Release date
- 1978-01-01
- Runtime
- 1h 46m
- Genres
- Comedy
- Original language
- JA
- Spoken languages
- Japanese
- Countries
- Japan
- Production
- Tenjo Sajiki