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Both Carmen and Terayama were brought up by single mothers – who were themselves often absent – with little or no memory of their fathers.
Shuji Terayama
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The word “rugby” has become one of the “season words” that are an essential component of every haiku.
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Terayama’s text ranges from a sexual fantasy involving his mother to a prose-poem dedicated to 1960s screen goddess Ayako Wakao.
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“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.”
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She is still going strong. The flame still burns.
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All is resolved somehow and the goat goes back to the wide open pastures of Hokkaido.
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Our hero is disengaged, transgressive and filled with a restless energy that makes him dangerous – rather like his creator
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Imagine that the counter-culture of the late 1960s was transposed to the last decades of the Tokugawa Shogunate.
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In the early 1980s, home video was in its infancy… the result is a punky, DIY aesthetic that manages to be both simple and moving
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Yang gives a moving performance as the stuttering, socially inept ex-barber with the ring-name of “Barikan” (“Clipper”).