Grass Labyrinth

Story

Synopsis

Akira is haunted by a "bouncing ball" song that he remembers his mother singing when he was a small child, and now on the verge of a sexually active adulthood, he wants to find the origins of the song. The young man ostensibly wanders into a time-warp in which aspects from his childhood and adulthood mix together. In this never-never land he comes across a beautiful woman/witch who is lost inside the labyrinth of her mansion, just as the young man is lost in the labyrinth of time — and on some levels, perhaps the labyrinth of his subconscious.

Director

Shūji Terayama

Writers

Shūji Terayama, Izumi Kyōka, Rio Kishida

Language

Japanese

Country

Japan

Release date

3 November 1979

Ensemble

Cast

• 

  Hiroshi Mikami

  Young Akira

• 

  Takeshi Wakamatsu

  Akira

• 

  Keiko Niitaka

  Mother

• 

  Jūzō Itami

  Principal / Priest / Old man

• Miho Fukuya

  Girl

• Ryoko Kinoyama

• Akiko Suetsugu

• 

  Yoko Ran

• Yutaka Nemoto

• Momoko Yaguchi

• Masaharu Saito

• Hiromi Kawai