身毒丸少年丧母，他终日沉浸在怀念母亲的悲痛之中。父亲为了家庭，从妓院买回来妓女抚子担任孩子们的继母，抚子带着领养的孩子千代一起进入了这个家庭。抚子努力维系这个家，然身毒丸过于执迷过去，对这个继母始终心怀敌意，母子之间的隔阂 逐渐加深。最终，忍无可忍的抚子通过诅咒弄瞎了身毒丸的双眼，而逃出家门的身毒丸为了报复继母，杀害了无血缘关系的弟弟千代。父亲因无法承受巨大的打击而去世。家破人亡后，身毒丸悔不当初，最终与继母冰释前嫌，以恋人的身份生活下去。

1971 film by Shūji Terayama

A doctor, gynecologist, discover the corpse of his wife. His nurse advises to him to declare her death a simple heart attack, to clear himself without the slightest doubt. He refuses and calls the police force there. The interrogation of the doctor, then other witnesses, slowly reveals the truth of her demise…

Three stories. A solitary sailor falls from his boat and washes ashore on a tropical island. While seeking rescue, he's found by a nearly naked woman who is playful and compliant. He decides to erase his signs of distress and remain on the island. What awaits? In the second, an adolescent searches for the words of a nursery rime he remembers bits of. His journey takes him into dreams, sexual awakening, and Oedipal fantasy. Third, a man of wealth in late-nineteenth century Paris hires a prostitute for the night. She's also cabaret performer and takes him to her room. He fears he's about to be robbed.

The smallpox virus has created its own unique atmosphere in Terayama’s film where the skin of a bandaged adolescent and the surface of the filmic image are subjected to a bizarre ‘disturbance’ as snails cross the screen and nails are hammered into the skull of the ailing patient. Illness in this film is as much a psychic entity as a physical one and manifests itself in an array of theatrical tableaux from grotesque women rigorously brushing their teeth to a snooker game where the players in white face makeup behave like automata. A Tale of Smallpox uses a medical theme to chart the traumatic dream life of Terayama’s times, evincing deep-rooted concerns in the Japanese national psyche that hark back to the upheaval of Meiji modernisation and the devastation of World War Two.

A dreamlike portrayal of a hangover after a decadent party.

奥巴哈乌震实验电影节银奖。戛纳电影节导演周招待作品。 利用简单的门道具，展开强烈的超现实视觉之旅，而且影像洋溢诗情，在迷宫的旅程中呈现出极强的感性魔力。

里尔电影节国际评论家奖。 将法国作家Lautreamont的《马尔德罗尔之歌》解体的实验之作，虫类在肉身挪动，倒转播出的乐章，创造出另一生物的特异官感，挑战常人的极限。

An experimental short featuring people and nails.

A sexually insatiable woman leads a strange clan consisting of a sadistically unhinged woman, her oversexed boyfriend and a former army general. They have captured a businessman who has diverted company assets and work him over with torture and kinky sex to make him reveal the account number. Will he keep mum or will the clan get their way?

A girl named O loves a rich, and much older man. She is subjected to a variety of humiliating experiences to prove her unconditional obedience to him in a Chinese brothel. A poor boy sees her and falls in love with her. To get the money needed to sleep with her, he takes part in rebellious acts.

片中展现多本你从未见过的读书机械，都是天才发明家小竹节信亲手制造。但在片中，已分不清读书机械是主人，或是人才是读书机械！

1979 film by Shūji Terayama

1971 film by Shūji Terayama

1984 film by Shūji Terayama

As a family goes on with their day, the shadows on their walls lead a completely different life.