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Pastoral: To Die in the Country (田園に死す, Den-en ni shisu), also known as Pastoral Hide and Seek, is a 1974 Japanese drama film directed by Shūji Terayama. The film employs a film-within-film structure, depicting a young man (a stand-in for Terayama) wrestling with the film he is attempting to complete - a reimagination of his adolescence.
Dec 28, 1974 · Pastoral: To Die in the Country: Directed by Shûji Terayama. With Kaoru Yachigusa, Keiko Niitaka, Masumi Harukawa, Kan Mikami. A young boys' coming of age tale set in a strange, carnivalesque village becomes the recreation of a memory that the director has twenty years later.
Oct 30, 2021 · The Image: A very striking image - with the younger 'Me' in his usual Noh-type white make-up, postman cap and eerily-closed (white-taped) eyes - delivering a letter at a circus enclosure (don't ...
A bizarre movie about a film director making a film about his childhood in the country. The movie makes the viewer wonder if the history of his life is real or fantasy. Addeddate
Pastoral: To Die in the Country is Japanese surrealism at its most wildly imaginative. Everything about the film makes it a sensory experience to be indulged in. The lush collage of color utilized between filters and scenery, and the use of unnatural sound puts the viewer's senses on high alert.
Aug 9, 2019 · Perhaps his most beloved film is Pastoral: To Die in the Country (Japanese: 田園に死す), a deeply sentimental but also highly amusing dark comedy that serves to be a fascinating journey into childhood, and an almost unsettling surreal exploration of broad themes that are by no means uncommon in fiction, but are repurposed to be almost ...
A film about a film-maker’s re-examination (and attempted revision) of his own childhood. His boyhood self is an unprepossessing lad who lives with his monstrous, widowed mother, fantasises about the desirable girl-next-door, and finds the visiting circus a touchstone for his dreams of escape.
