After more than a gap year, Tokyo Thursdays, a regular feature on ‘Serge the Concierge’ returns with the showcase of a film screening Pastoral: To Die in The Country on January 24 at Japan Society in New York.
Movie is “Based on Terayama’s autobiographical collection of tanka poetry, Pastoral: To Die in the Country entrenches itself in the framework of a child’s game—“those long games of hide and seek”—as a filmmaker seeks out his own sense of self within the faint sketches of his past, re-imagining the countryside of his adolescence.”
Dir. Shuji Terayama, 1974, 101 min., 35mm, color, in Japanese with English subtitles. With Kantaro Suga, Hiroyuki Takano, Chigusa Takayama, Yoshio Harada.
Poetry in motion for Tokyo Thursdays #323
(* Illustration and details from Japan Society program notes)