Shūji Terayama

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1935-12-10 (48 years old)

Deathday

1983-05-04

Place of Birth

Aomori, Japan

Shūji Terayama

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Shūji Terayama (December 10, 1935 – May 4, 1983) was an avant-garde Japanese poet, dramatist, writer, film director, and photographer. According to many critics and supporters, he was one of the most productive and provocative creative artists to come out of Japan. He was born December 10, 1935, the only son of Hachiro and Hatsu Terayama in Hirosaki city in the northern Japanese prefecture of Aomori. His father died at the end of Pacific War in Indonesia in September 1945. At the age of nine, his mother moved to Kyūshū to work at an American military base while he himself went to live with relatives in ...

Acting

1977

1978

2017

Where is Tomorrow, Shuji Terayama

as Himself (archive footage)

1983

1973

JRA CM

as Himself

1966

Production

1971

1979

1981

1979

Grass Labyrinth

as Director

2021

海王星

as Creator

1975

Labyrinth Tale

as Director

1984

1971

1961

1978

1974

Butterfly

as Writer

1974

Butterfly

as Director

1977

The Reading Machine

as Screenplay

1974

Laura

as Director

1977

The Eraser

as Screenplay

1977

1977

The Eraser

as Director

1975

Smallpox Tale

as Director

1977

Father

as Director

1975

Smallpox Tale

as Screenplay

1964

The Cage

as Director

1964

The Cage

as Screenplay

1977

1975

The Trial

as Director

1978

Shintokumaru

as Director

1983

The Lemmings

as Director

1978

1981

1977

Boxer

as Director

2013

Lemming

as Writer

1983

1981

1980

1978

Third Base

as Writer

1983

Video Letter

as Editor

1983

Video Letter

as Cinematography

1967

Mothers

as Poem

1960

Catology

as Director

1961

Epitaph to My Love

as Screenplay

1979

Grass Labyrinth

as Screenplay

1978

Shintokumaru

as Writer

1994

1975

1975

The Trial

as Screenplay

1960

Get 'em All

as Screenplay

1977

Boxer

as Screenplay

1973

JRA CM

as Director

1983

Video Letter

as Writer

1983

Video Letter

as Director

1984

Farewell to the Ark

as Screenplay

1979

Private Collections

as Screenplay

1960

Youth in Fury

as Screenplay

1983

The Lemmings

as Writer

1962

A Flame at the Pier

as Screenplay

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