Author: Wen / Ta ta jun Collaboration / Kitamura Isamu / anitama Cover source: 19-year-old Shuji Terayama
introduction
While traveling in Japan, I visited Book Off, japan's largest chain of second-hand bookstores, where I wanted to buy books about Shuji Terayama. The author asked a young clerk brother: Is there his book here?
"Shuji Terayama?" Who is it? As a result, the author got such an answer. The clerk continued to ask, "What is he?" ”
The question of who Shuji Terayama is, I can't easily answer (of course, japanese blindness is also a reason), because Terayama Shuji is too many people, film directors, screenwriters, singers, writers, poets, horse racing critics. Embarrassed, I didn't know how to answer for a while. Finally, I asked an elderly clerk before digging out one of his poems from the vast sea of books.
This experience makes me have to sigh, is Shuji Terayama also going to be forgotten by the new generation of Japan? This is the case in Japan, and those at home may have had less contact with him. I also have to thank fate for allowing me to meet Shuji Terayama.
"Goodbye Mr. Despair" quotes Shuji Terayama' poem: "Please write happiness a hundred times so that everyone can simply become happy." ”
Shuji Terayama, which he has already introduced in my previous article, "The Secret Words of the Young Girl Tsubaki >, the < Of Maruo Suehiro". December 10 last year marked the 80th anniversary of his birth, and many commemorative events were held in Japan. He is a crazy and talented man in the eyes of this writer, he is lonely, he is like his surreal movie, contrary to the masses, this is his romance. It is precisely because of admiration that it traces back to the source. In the manga and animation industry, there are also many people who are obsessed with Shuji Terayama. On the occasion of the 80th anniversary of his birth, introducing this avant-garde artist is the original intention of this article. Let's start by restoring a Shuji Terayama.
Letters to the Underworld: Shuji Terayama's 80th Anniversary Music Festival Kaijo and Uno Akira.
The formation of the universe
Director Wen Yuenko described Shuji Terayama's world as a universe.
On December 10, 1935, Shuji Terayama was born, and according to the recollection of Shuji Terayama's mother and his wife Kujō Tomoko, who was born in Akiyacho, Hirosaki City, Aomori Prefecture, Terayama said that "because he was born in a moving train, he has no hometown." His father was originally a police officer who often traveled to various police stations in the prefecture, and was conscripted into the army after the start of the Pacific War, when Shuji Terayama was ten years old (1945), his father died in the war on Saipan, and his mother had to entrust him to his relatives who opened a movie theater in Aomori Prefecture, which contributed to his reclusive and sensitive personality, which had a great impact on Shuji Terayama's life, and in most of his works, the role of father was always "absent"; and for his hometown of Aomori, he always regarded himself as a foreigner, which was in his film " The Pastoral Sacrifice of the Dead is represented.
The Terayama family, photographed in 1937
Shuji Terayama's artistic enlightenment was poetry, not film. Under the influence of his junior high school friend Kyo Takehisa, he began to write haiku (1949) and joined the Ministry of Literature and Art, writing a large number of poems, haiku, and fairy tales in school. At that time, Shuji Terayama awakened his artistic cells and was deeply immersed in literature.
Shuji Terayama, 14 years old
Shuji Terayama's poem "Blue Star", published during Shuji Terayama Junior High School, is based on the third episode of "The Story of The Tomb Sweeper" broadcast by Wowow TV on October 31, 2015. "My mother had lung disease Then look to the sky Ah, I want to become a star I'm dead, maybe I'm going to turn into that beautiful star." - Excerpt from this poem.
In 1954, Shuji Terayama escaped from his hometown as he wished, entered the Department of Japanese Literature at Waseda University, began to wear Japanese songs, and at the age of 18 won the second "Short Song Research" Newcomer Award. During college, he met his lifelong friend, Shuntaro Tanigawa, a poet, and perhaps best known for his 1963 edition of Astro Boy's theme song "Astro Boy Song" (a song that everyone believes his parents have heard), and the lyrics of the theme song of Miyazaki's film "Howl's Moving Castle", "World Bound". Shuji Terayama and Shuntaro Tanigawa wrote letters to each other in the form of images between 1982 and 1983, and the video letters of the two artists became a good story.
At the same time, Japanese students are engaged in anti-security movements, during which student movements large and small are continuous, either avant-garde or excessive (by the way, these histories have been described in animation works such as "Ice Cream", "Superman Fantasy", and "The Hillside of Yu Beauty"). Shuji Terayama also joined the anti-security movement and formed the "Youth Japan Association" with Shintaro Ishihara, Shuntaro Tanigawa, Andhihito, and others. Shuji Terayama, who witnessed the anti-security movement, probably also imprinted these memories on his images: his experimental short film "The Emperor of Ketchup," published in 1971, is about children overthrowing the regime established by adults, treating adults as slaves, and being interested in adult things (as you know), a ridiculous story.
After a year of schooling, Shuji Terayama took a break from school.
Shuji Terayama, 19 years old
In 1960, Shuji Terayama wrote his film debut for Eizo Surakawa' film Eizo, and then co-wrote the script with Japanese New Wave director Masahiro Shinoda, and met his future wife, Kuroshi Tomoko Kurojo (formerly known as Hideko Kujo, renamed after the death of Shuji Terayama), and director Hashito, a partner of the Youth Japan Association, who also collaborated with Japanese New Wave director Masahiro Shinoda. During this time, he also became acquainted with Nagisa Oshima ("The Cruel Tale of Youth", "Merry Christmas on the Battlefield") ... Shuji Terayama's entry into the film industry in the 1960s paved an unprecedented underground cultural path for him, and ushered in the biggest turning point in Terayama's life, which was the establishment of the troupe "Patio Stack Shiki " on January 1, 1967" (Drama Room, Theater Courtyard Shiki)".
Shuji Terayama and Hideko Kujo, 25 years old. She divorced Shuji Terayama in 1970, but she helped Shuji Terayama until his death, after which she became a disseminator of Shuji Terayama's spiritual legacy. She died on 30 April 2014 at the age of 78.
The next issue begins with the theater troupe Atrium Stack created by Shuji Terayama, and traces the neta of the Patio Stack in Confession Goodbye Mr. Despair.
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