Grass Labyrinth

A surreal excursion into a young man's subconscious as he searches for the words to a tune that his mother may have sung to him as a child. The dreamlike images culminate in a scene of a girl's naked body covered with calligraphic characters.

• Hiroshi Mikami as Akira (as a boy)
• Takeshi Wakamatsu as Akira (as a man)
• Keiko Niitaka as Mother
• Juzo Itami as Principal / Priest / Old man
• Miho Fukuya as Girl
• Masaharu Satō

Grass Labyrinth was originally one of the installments in a French movie package called Private Collections, the other two sections being directed by Walerian Borowczyk and Just Jaeckin, both associated with avant-garde films with strong sexual content. Grass Labyrinth was the longest of the three and was later (1983) released as a separate film in Japan.{{cite book |last=Sharp|first=Jasper|title=Behind the Pink Curtain: The Complete History of Japanese Sex Cinema|year=2008|publisher=FAB Press|location=Guildford|page=197|isbn=978-1-903254-54-7}}

8th Hochi Film Award{{Cite web|url=http://cinemahochi.yomiuri.co.jp/h_award/1983/ |script-title=ja:報知映画賞ヒストリー |accessdate=2010-01-25 |language=Japanese |publisher=Cinema Hochi |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110325140217/http://cinemahochi.yomiuri.co.jp/h_award/1983/ |archivedate=2011-03-25 }}

• Won: Best Actor – Juzo Itami

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• {{jmdb title|year=1983|id=dg003820|title=草迷宮}}

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Category:1979 films

Category:Films directed by Shūji Terayama

Category:1970s Japanese-language films

Category:Toei Company films

Category:Japanese short films

Category:1970s Japanese films

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