Grass Labyrinth (1979)
草迷宮
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.
- Date of release
- 1979-11-03
- TMDB
- 7.3 / 10 (35)
- Runtime
- 42m
- Genres
- Drama, Fantasy
- Director
- Shūji Terayama
Casting
- Hiroshi Mikami — Young Akira
- Takeshi Wakamatsu — Akira
- Keiko Niitaka — Mother
- Jūzō Itami — Principal / Priest / Old man
- Miho Fukuya — Girl
- Ryoko Kinoyama
- Akiko Suetsugu
- Yoko Ran
- Yutaka Nemoto
- Momoko Yaguchi
- Masaharu Saito
- Hiromi Kawai
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