Video Letter (1983)
This remarkable compilation follows an exchange of video letters that took place between Shuji Terayama and Shuntaro Tanikawa in the months immediately preceding Terayama's death. It can be thought of as a home video produced by two preeminent poets and inter-laid with highly abstract philosophizing, slightly aberrant behavior and occasionally flamboyant visuals.
Directors: Shuntaro Tanikawa, Shūji Terayama.
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Shūji Terayama as Self |
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Shuntaro Tanikawa as Self |
| Crew | Shūji Terayama | Cinematography |
| Editing | Shūji Terayama | Editor |
| Directing | Shuntaro Tanikawa | Director |
| Editing | Shuntaro Tanikawa | Editor |
| Writing | Shuntaro Tanikawa | Writer |
| Camera | Shuntaro Tanikawa | Director of Photography |
| Writing | Shūji Terayama | Writer |
| Directing | Shūji Terayama | Director |