An Attempt to Describe the Measure of a Man

Name: An Attempt to Describe the Measure of a Man
Director: Shūji Terayama
Released: 1978-02-02
Duration: 19 min
Rating: 1
Cast: Toshihiko Hino, Momo Yaguchi

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An Attempt to Describe the Measure of a Man

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Tenjo Sajiki

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1978-02-02

An Attempt to Describe the Measure of a Man

Using bluescreen video techniques, Terayama playfully—and with a silent film theatricality—posits a series of postmodern vignettes featuring realities-within-realities as his protagonist attempts some kind of relationship with a nude woman on the screen-within-the-screen. In his struggles to “free” her, he exposes the absurd flimsiness, deceptiveness and mutability of both the cinema experience and our human dimension.