An Attempt to Describe the Measure of a Man

• Movies
• 1978-02-02
• JA
• Released
• 0h 19m
• JP

• 1.0
• 1

Production

Tenjo Sajiki

Storyline

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.