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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.
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- Drama, Fantasy
- Shûji Terayama
- 1974-12-28
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 ...
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- The aesthetic of the Image: [world] cinema clips
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.
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- Art Theatre Guild, Jinriki Hikoki Sha
- Shūji Terayama
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.
