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Grass Labyrinth
JAPAN · 1979

Grass Labyrinth

Shuji Terayama
childhood trauma memory and nostalgia sexual awakening time distortion maternal longing
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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

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