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Pastoral: To Die in the Country

Name: Pastoral: To Die in the Country
Director: Shūji Terayama
Genre: Fantasy, Drama
Released: 1974
Rating: 7.5
Cast: Kantarō Suga, Hiroyuki Takano, Chigusa Takayama, Kaoru Yachigusa, Keiko Niitaka

A director faces creative block while working on his latest film – a reimagination of his adolescence growing up in a mountain village in rural Japan.

1974 · Directed by Shūji Terayama · 101 min · Fantasy · Drama · 39 frames

Crew

Written by: Shūji Terayama
Cinematography: Tatsuo Suzuki
Edited by: Sachiko Yamaji, Hiroshi Asai, Ryûsuke Ôtsubo
Music: J.A. Seazer
Produced by: Shūji Terayama, Eiko Kujo, Yumi Govaasu

Cast

Kantarō Suga as Shuji
Hiroyuki Takano as Young Shuji
Chigusa Takayama as Shuji's Mother
Kaoru Yachigusa as Married woman
Keiko Niitaka as Pregnant
Masumi Harukawa as Air woman
Izumi Hara as Phantom of old woman
Yoshio Harada as Arashi
Masahiro Saito as Longsocks
J.A. Seazer as Tengu Kurama

Production

Country: Japan
Language: Japanese
Studios: Art Theatre Guild, Jinriki Hikoki Sha
Themes: surreal

More by Shūji Terayama

Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets — 1971
Fruits of Passion — 1981

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