A surreal, isolated village sees its inhabitants gradually leave behind their mutual traditions and superstitions as they leave for the city. Among them are two cousins who love each other and who get into a quarrel with other villagers.

Farewell.to.the.Ark.1984.BDRIP.576p.x264.FLAC.KJNU.mkv

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Runtime: 	2 h 7 min
Size: 	2.94 GiB
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https://nitro.download/view/53ACB550803D4F2/Farewell.to.the.Ark.1984.BDRIP.576p.x264.FLAC.KJNU.mkv

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English

The post Shûji Terayama – Saraba hakobune AKA Farewell to the Ark (1984) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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This remarkable compilation follows an exchange of video letters that took place between Shuji Terayama and Shuntaro Tanikawa in the months immediately preceding Terayama’s death. It can be thought of as a home video produced by two preeminent poets and inter-laid with highly abstract philosophizing, slightly aberrant behavior and occasionally flamboyant visuals.

Video Letter.mkv

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Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1 h 14 min
Size: 	1.29 GiB
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Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	696x474 ~> 696x522
Aspect ratio:  	4:3
Frame rate: 	23.976 fps
Bit rate: 	2 204 kb/s
BPP: 	0.279
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#1:  	Japanese 2.0ch AC-3 @ 256 kb/s

https://nitro.download/view/BBEDB00D7520A5C/Video_Letter.mkv

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English, French

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A girl loves an older man. He demands that she goes in a brothel, as evidence that she loves him.

Shuji Terayama adapted his 1981 film, The Fruits of Passion, from the eponymous Pauline Reage’s sequel to her well regarded book, The Story of O. However, ‘adapted’ is used very loosely in this instance, as Terayama uses the opportunity to completely reshape the structure of the novel, and use only it’s themes and characters to create a story that is uniquely his. According to the credits, the text of the narration and O’s dialogue itself was taken directly from the short novel, but everything else is pure Terayama.

Terayama takes every opportunity to distance himself from the simple sex film, filling the movie with numerous little bits of alternate imagery (some of it quite startling, some of it contrived), real historical aspects of modern Chinese history, and other strange plot detours such as extended sequences with the other prostitutes in the house.

“It’s the late 1920’s, and China is coming apart at the seams; Communist rebels are plotting insurgencies everywhere in an attempt to drive out occupying foreign forces, and people are living in fear. Nonetheless, Englishman Sir Stephen (Klaus Kinski) decides to bring his lover to China with him, a beautiful young European girl known only as “O” (Isabelle Illiers). The girl is so madly in love with him that she’s willing to do anything he desires, and to test that resolve Stephen orders her to submit to a life of prostitution in a local brothel. “O” accepts and agrees to a contract of service with the establishment.”

Les.fruits.de.la.passion.1981.1080p.WEB-DL.AAC2.0.x264-HAMR.mkv

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Container: Matroska
Runtime: 1h 19mn
Size: 2.90 GiB
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Minimum settings: Not met
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Codec: x264
Resolution: 1968x1080
Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
Frame rate: 25.000 fps
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French 2.0ch AAC LC @ 192 kb/s

https://nitro.download/view/53D6293DF85CEB8/Les.fruits.de.la.passion.1981.1080p.WEB-DL.AAC2.0.x264-HAMR.mkv

https://fikper.com/dyocazr0iY/Les.fruits.de.la.passion.1981.1080p.WEB-DL.AAC2.0.x264-HAMR.mkv

Language(s):French
Subtitles:English, Chinese

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Shuji Terayama and J.A.Seazer’s phantasmagoric folk-psych-symph-prog-rock opera. Historical Tenjo Sajiki performance from 1978. A brief synopsis (for a somewhat different version of the play) is given below. Much of the symbolism of Shintokumaru is shared with Terayama’s earlier masterpiece motion picture Pastoral: to die in the country (also known as Pastoral hide-and-seek).

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In a crowded thoroughfare, Shintoku-Maru searches for memories of his late mother, whose picture he carries in his pocket. His father, bereft without a wife, decides to purchase a new mother for his family.

From a group of travelling players who have fallen on hard times, he chooses Nadeshiko. Shintoku is immediately attracted to her. With her own son, Sensaku, they all make a home together. However, Shintoku rejects his step-mother and the aging father refuses to treat her as his wife. Nadeshiko realizes she has been married only to provide domestic stability.

The family play a game of cards, in which he who collects a complete family (father, mother and children) is the winner. Thinking he is being deliberately ignored, Shintoku surrepititiously withholds the ‘mother’ cards and leaves with them.

Nadeshiko goes to look for him and finds him playing with a long-horned beetle (in Japanese superstition, long-horn beetles were supposed to cut off women’s hair). When she tries to comfort him in a motherly way, he rejects her and the pent-up anger between them explodes.

Shintoku meets a mask seller, who tells him that although he does not have a mask of his mother, he will lend him some magic: a black hole through which he can travel anywhere.

Shintoku travels to the underworld in search of his mother. There he finds many mothers looking for their children. Ships come and go with cargos of the dead, and the mothers grieve for the untimely deaths of their children. Shintoku longs to see his mother again, who, he reveals, died saving him from their burning home when he was a small boy. Suddenly his step-mother Nadeshiko appears and this seeming heaven turns into hell. Shintoku summons his long-horned beetle and the nightmare ends.

Two years pass. Nadeshiko is cleaning the house. She polishes the picture of Shintoku’s mother with such vigor that the image vanishes. This enrages Shintoku, and in a fury he hits his step-mother. In an attempt to maintain the stability of the family, Shintoku’s father orders him to obey, but he refuses.

Nadeshiko reappears with an effigy of Shintoku, on which she begins to place a curse because of his dislike for her–he will not even look at her. In the darkness, Shintoku mistakes her for his real mother and embraces her, telling her of his hatred for his step-mother. He realizes too late that it is Nadeshiko in his arms. In despair, Nadeshiko concludes her curse and Shintoku is blinded.

Over the next year Nadeshiko starts to lose her mind. Shintoku returns, disguised as Nadeshiko, and savagely assaults his step-brother. In a nightmarish sequence, the family home is symbolically destroyed and the father’s health is broken. The strolling players return: their song is of the father and all he represented. (The players are wearing masks depicting seals which to the Japanese signify their rights as householders).

Nadeshiko finds Shintoku playing the family card game alone, wearing her kimono. They finally acknowledge their love for each other and he pleads with her to consummate this love, so that she may give birth to him, and hence become his real mother.

Together they disappear into the crowd, their destination unknown.

696MB | 1h 55mn | 620×464 | avi

https://nitro.download/view/6666C90D8F2FA05/Shintokumaru.(Tenjo.Sajiki.experimental.theater,.Shuji.Terayama,.1978).VHSrip.avi https://nitro.download/view/DD9DB39269F09DC/Shintokumaru.(Tenjo.Sajiki.experimental.theater,.Shuji.Terayama,.1978).VHSrip.en.srt

Language:Japanese
Subtitles:Japanese hardcoded, English

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Shuji Terayama adapted his 1981 film, The Fruits of Passion, from the eponymous Pauline Reage’s sequel to her well regarded book, The Story of O. However, ‘adapted’ is used very loosely in this instance, as Terayama uses the opportunity to completely reshape the structure of the novel, and use only it’s themes and characters to create a story that is uniquely his. According to the credits, the text of the narration and O’s dialogue itself was taken directly from the short novel, but everything else is pure Terayama.

Terayama takes every opportunity to distance himself from the simple sex film, filling the movie with numerous little bits of alternate imagery (some of it quite startling, some of it contrived), real historical aspects of modern Chinese history, and other strange plot detours such as extended sequences with the other prostitutes in the house.

“It’s the late 1920’s, and China is coming apart at the seams; Communist rebels are plotting insurgencies everywhere in an attempt to drive out occupying foreign forces, and people are living in fear. Nonetheless, Englishman Sir Stephen (Klaus Kinski) decides to bring his lover to China with him, a beautiful young European girl known only as “O” (Isabelle Illiers). The girl is so madly in love with him that she’s willing to do anything he desires, and to test that resolve Stephen orders her to submit to a life of prostitution in a local brothel. “O” accepts and agrees to a contract of service with the establishment.”

1.27GB | 1h 22m | 768×480 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/448B424D729FC4C/Fruits.of.Passion.1981.DVDRIP.x264.AC3.KJNU.mkv

Language(s):French
Subtitles:English

The post Shuji Terayama – Les Fruits de la passion AKA Fruits of Passion (1981) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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In mid-career, while he is on a winning streak, and in the middle of a fight he is winning, a young boxer is revolted by the violence of the game. He allows himself to be beaten up and quits the match and the sport. He also leaves his wife and child and lives alone with his moth-eaten old dog, all the while losing his sight. Years later, he is hunted down by a young man who is ambitious to become a prize-winning boxer. Persistence pays off, and he eventually persuades the ex-boxer to be his manager and trainer. The boy begins his rise to success, though he has a stormy relationship with his manager.

1.51GB | 1h 34m | 839×472 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/72340AA9BCF2986/The_Boxer.mkv
or
https://nitroflare.com/view/A115026B8A241FC/The_Boxer.part1.rar
https://nitroflare.com/view/E3382BB03F0D95D/The_Boxer.part2.rar

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English

The post Shûji Terayama – Bokusâ AKA The Boxer (1977) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Oh man, this is a gem. Highly recommended if you dig Tenjosajiki/Terayama’s musical numbers. For starters, take a peek at this lineup:

Lyrics composed by Terayama Shuji
Music composed by J.A. Seazer, Panta, Fukamachi Jun…
Performed by Zunou Keisatsu (Brain Police, far left political rock band, Les Rallizes Denudes’ Hiroshi Nar was a member at one time), Tanaka Seiji

Terayama Shuji’s slightly…dark? interpretations of the fables, mixed with the absolutely wonderful composition and experimental, theatrical vocals/instrumentation…it’s a surreal journey.

1. 骨つき肉のはなし
2. いじわる猫
3. 悪口唄
4. とべなかったカメ
5. 猫が来た
6. 月夜のイタチ
7. 大きな豚と小さな豚
8. 川に溺れた子ヒツジ
9. キツネ火事
10. アリとキリギリス

01 Prologue, The Story of Meat.mp3 4MB
02 The Nasty Cat.mp3 9MB
03 Singing Smack.mp3 5MB
04 The Turtle That Couldn’t Fly.mp3 7MB
05 The Cat’s Coming.mp3 6MB
06 Weasel on a Moonlit Night.mp3 8MB
07 The Large Pig and The Small Pig.mp3 8MB
08 Lamb That Drowned in the River.mp3 5MB
09 Foxfire.mp3 7MB
10 And and a Grasshopper.mp3 7MB
11 Untitled.mp3 9MB
12 Untitled.mp3 4MB

http://nitroflare.com/view/11334D105D1D36A/Terayama_Shuji_-_1973_-_Aesop%27s_Fables.rar

no pass

The post Shûji Terayama – Isoppu Monogatari AKA Aesop’s Fables (1973) first appeared on Cinema of the World.