This remarkable compilation follows an exchange of video letters, which took place between Shuji Terayama and Shuntaro Tanikawa in the months immediately preceding Terayama's death. You can think of it as a home video produced by two preeminent poets and interlayed with highly abstract philosophizing, slightly aberrant behavior and occasionally flamboyant visuals.

《幻想图书馆》是日本知名导演、诗人、作家寺山修司集恶趣味与冷知识于一身的代表作。寺山修司他博览群书，畅谈头发的典故、青蛙的趣闻、后宫的传说、拷问的艺术、狼人的故事……从神话、民俗或广告单、画报中引经据典。像是沿着艾柯的阶梯，进入博尔赫斯的图书馆，实践了本雅明未曾实现的理想——写一本完全由引文组成的书。

1974 film by Shūji Terayama