An Attempt to Describe the Measure of a Man (一寸法師を記述する試み) 47 years old

Using bluescreen video techniques, Terayama playfully—and with a silent film theatricality—posits a series of postmodern vignettes featuring realities-within-realities as his protagonist attempts some kind of relationship with a nude woman on the screen-within-the-screen. In his struggles to “free” her, he exposes the absurd flimsiness, deceptiveness and mutability of both the cinema experience and our human dimension.

Credits

An Attempt to Describe the Measure of a Man Cast

Name Character
Toshihiko Hino

An Attempt to Describe the Measure of a Man Crew

Name Department
Tatsuo Suzuki as Director of Photography. He was 42 (76) years old when He died Camera
Shuuji Terayama as Director. He was 41 (47) years old when He died Directing
Shuuji Terayama as Screenplay. He was 41 (47) years old when He died Writing
Rio Kishida as Screenplay. She was 30 (57) years old when She died Writing
An Attempt to Describe the Measure of a Man (47 years)

  • Release day: Saturday, January 01, 1977
  • Runtime: 19 minutes