An Attempt to Describe the Measure of a Man

An Attempt to Describe the Measure of a Man

An Attempt to Describe the Measure of a Man

1978 19m 1Movie

AnimationRomance

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.

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Shūji Terayama

Director, Screenplay

Rio Kishida

Screenplay

Top Cast

Toshihiko Hino

Momo Yaguchi