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Video Letter (1983)

Genre : Fantasy, Documentary

Runtime : 1H 14M

Director : Shuntaro Tanikawa, Shūji Terayama

Synopsis

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.

Actors

Shūji Terayama
Shūji Terayama
Self
Shuntaro Tanikawa
Shuntaro Tanikawa
Self

Crews

Shuntaro Tanikawa
Shuntaro Tanikawa
Director
Shuntaro Tanikawa
Shuntaro Tanikawa
Writer
Shuntaro Tanikawa
Shuntaro Tanikawa
Editor
Shuntaro Tanikawa
Shuntaro Tanikawa
Director of Photography
Shūji Terayama
Shūji Terayama
Director
Shūji Terayama
Shūji Terayama
Writer
Shūji Terayama
Shūji Terayama
Cinematography
Shūji Terayama
Shūji Terayama
Editor

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