

Grass Labyrinth
1979 Directed by Shūji TerayamaAkira 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.
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Hiroshi Mikami
....................................................Young Akira

Takeshi Wakamatsu
....................................................Akira

Keiko Niitaka
....................................................Mother

Jūzō Itami
....................................................Principal / Priest / Old man
Miho Fukuya
....................................................Girl
Ryoko Kinoyama
....................................................Akiko Suetsugu
....................................................Director
...........................................................Shūji Terayama
Assistant Director
...........................................................Shinji Sōmai
Production Design
...........................................................Isao Yamada
Screenplay
...........................................................Rio Kishida
Shūji Terayama
Original Music Composer
...........................................................J.A. Seazer
Editor
...........................................................Tomoyo Ōshima
Production Companies
...................................................Jinriki Hikoki Sha
Production Countries
........................................................Japan
Spoken Languages
....................................................日本語
Genres
....................................................Drama
Fantasy
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