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Directions to Servants
JAPAN · 1978

Directions to Servants

Shuji Terayama
identity loss class inversion surrealism institutional chaos psychological descent
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Synopsis

A man claiming to be the heir of an estate in northern japan finds himself at the doors of his mansion, only to find it overrun by servants and maids playing pretend as master or mistress, while the real master is nowhere to be found. As he makes his way down the many rooms of the mansion and witnesses the staff's strange antics, he gradually loses his own role and sense of identity. In this subve

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