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An Attempt to Describe the Measure of a Man (1978)
Directed by Shūji Terayama
Animation, Romance · 19m
Using bluescreen video techniques, Terayama playfully—and with a silent film theatricality—posits a series of postmodern vignettes featuring realities-within-realities as his protagonist attempts some kind of relationship with a nude woman on the screen-within-the-screen. In his struggles to “free” her, he exposes the absurd flimsiness, deceptiveness and mutability of both the cinema experience and our human dimension.
Cast
Crew
- Director
- Shūji Terayama
- Screenplay
- Shūji Terayama, Rio Kishida
- Director of Photography
- Tatsuo Suzuki
- Producer
- Eiko Kujo
Details
- Original title
- 一寸法師を記述する試み
- Release date
- 1978-02-02
- Runtime
- 19m
- Genres
- Animation, Romance
- Original language
- JA
- Spoken languages
- No Language
- Countries
- Japan
- Production
- Tenjo Sajiki