#ShujiTerayama
A Tale Of Smallpox

#Visualart #JapaneseNewWave #AvantGuarde #Poet #AnguraTheatre #Film

Stylized black-and-white movie poster with a still showing the couple naked just after coitus.

The pivotal scene where Rie catches Birdy in the act of shoplifting books. This movie uses a lot of dramatic closeups.

Three student protesters with matching hats and shirts doing a kind of silly kabuki-style dance.

Watched “Diary of a Shinjuku Thief” (1969), a #JapaneseNewWave film directed by Nagisa Ōshima, about a young man who is caught stealing books from a Kinokuniya by a clerk at the shop which ignites a mutually manipulative sexual relationship. archive.org/details/diar...

Now Available! Includes the cover to Patrick Noonan's Age of Disaffection: The Aesthetic Critique of Politics in 1960s Japan. It includes a blur from Diane Wei Lewi and a 20% discount with code CUP20SM at cup.columbia.edu

AGE OF DISAFFECTION foregrounds cultivation, or the production of ways of feeling and relating to the world in efforts to redefine the political. buff.ly/3qMJWEM #AgeOfDisaffection #1960sJapan #Disaffection #1960s #Yoshimototakaaki #Terayamashuji #yoshidakiju #newwave #japanesenewwave #radicalism

A ★★★★ review of Nanami: The Inferno of First Love (1968) Late-1960s Japan, where youngsters butted up against adult corporate society, and who, if unable to gain entry to the newly emerging middle class, did what they had to do… rebelled. But what is it lik...

Definitely not an easy film and probably needs some trigger warnings…

#FilmSky #Film #JapaneseFilm #JapaneseNewWave

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Mujō (1970) dir. Akio Jissōji

Production Companies
Art Theatre Guild
Gendai Eigasha

#mujo #akiojissoji #japanesenewwave #artcinema #locarnofilmfestival #existentialcinema

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