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8.0/10   131 votes
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Director:
Writer:
Shuji Terayama (writer)
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Release Date:
28 December 1974 (Japan) more
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Awards:
1 win & 1 nomination more
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Brecht Meets Dali Meets Terayama more (3 total)

Cast

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Kantarô Suga ... Me
Hiroyuki Takano ... Me, as a boy
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Yoshio Harada ... Arashi
Sen Hara ... Phantom of old woman
Masumi Harukawa
Isao Kimura ... Film Critic
Kan Mikami
Keiko Niitaka
Yoko Ran
J.A. Seazer ... Tengu Kurama
Kaoru Yachigusa
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Pastoral Hide and Seek (USA) (wide-release title)
Pastoral: To Die in the Country (International: English title)
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Runtime:
104 min | Japan:102 min
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Color:
Color (Eastmancolor)
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Brecht Meets Dali Meets Terayama, 1 December 2006
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Author: Mar-Cinema from United States

Pastoral: To Die in the Country is another great piece of surreal film-making from Shuji Terayama. The film is about a young Terayama who appears in whiteface along with his mother. The young Terayama deals with his sexual hang-ups due to the onset of puberty. He also slowly drifts away from his clinging mother. The village which he lives in is the most delightful sight in the film. Their are strange denizens who populate the village. The one memorable group is the circus troupe which is shown in a spectral, prism filter tone to add life to their profession. Close to the middle of the film, Terayama has an actor playing himself interrupt the film saying that the rest hasn't been edited yet, he soon enters the film he is shooting and interacts with his former self.

For a film that was nominated for a Golden Palm at the Cannes Film Festival, I can't understand why it has become so unpopular over the years. Shuji Terayama has provided me with some of the most beautiful visuals I have ever seen in a movie. I know his work would not appeal to everyone, but if it received a proper DVD release (Criterion; Fantoma), cinephiles and critics would take notice immediately.

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