New Terayama / Moriyama Publication: “Japan, A Photo Theater”
Terayama’s text ranges from a sexual fantasy involving his mother to a prose-poem dedicated to 1960s screen goddess Ayako Wakao.

Terayama’s text ranges from a sexual fantasy involving his mother to a prose-poem dedicated to 1960s screen goddess Ayako Wakao.
“You have a wife, don’t you?” “Yes, she’s as cold as ice. When she’s asleep, I often dream of setting her on fire.”
“So long, and thanks for all the fish.”
She is still going strong. The flame still burns.
Carousing in Roppongi or Ginza would not be the same in daylight.
All is resolved somehow and the goat goes back to the wide open pastures of Hokkaido.
They are different from the rest of us, not just in skill, but in self-confidence, single-mindedness and the ability to handle pressure.
Our hero is disengaged, transgressive and filled with a restless energy that makes him dangerous – rather like his creator
Imagine that the counter-culture of the late 1960s was transposed to the last decades of the Tokugawa Shogunate.
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