Grass Labyrinth

7.3 / 10

(29 votes)

Akira is haunted by a "bouncing ball" song that he remembers his mother singing when he was a small child, and now on the verge of a sexually active adulthood, he wants to find the origins of the song. The young man ostensibly wanders into a time-warp in which aspects from his childhood and adulthood mix together. In this never-never land he comes across a beautiful woman/witch who is lost inside the labyrinth of her mansion, just as the young man is lost in the labyrinth of time — and on some levels, perhaps the labyrinth of his subconscious.

Country:

France,

Japan

Genre:

Drama,

Romance,

Fantasy

Duration:

40 minutes

Year:

1979

Director:

Shūji Terayama

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Company:

Jinriki Hikoki Sha

Cast:
Hiroshi Mikami

Young Akira

Takeshi Wakamatsu

Akira

Keiko Niitaka

Mother

Jūzō Itami

Principal / Priest / Old man

Miho Fukuya

Girl

Crew:
Shūji Terayama

Director

Tomoyo Ōshima

Editor

Shinji Sōmai

Assistant Director

Tatsuo Suzuki

Director of Photography

Izumi Kyōka

Original Story