Events

Time and Location

12/9-12/16
Japan Society, NY

About

Shuji Terayama’s haunting childhood melancholia finds young Akira deep within reminiscences of his youth, searching for the forgotten verses of a lullaby his mother once sang to him. Originally released as part of the three-film erotic omnibus Private Collections (featuring the work of Walerian Borowcyzk and Just Jaeckin), Terayama’s short adapts famed writer Kyoka Izumi’s story into garish psychosexual hysteria with suitably oedipal undertones—resulting in a metaphysical journey that emboldens the traumas of adolescence to take on new forms. Akira’s labyrinthine voyage resurfaces past figures and memories—from a tryst with a powder-faced nymphomaniac to the shifting threads of his mother’s weaving loom. A transient wanderer lost within his subconscious, Akira inevitably draws closer to childhood’s end in his ceaseless quest for the lyrics of a lilting melody.

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Taisho Roman – Fever Dreams of the Great Rectitude