An Attempt to Describe the Measure of a ManMovie
Using bluescreen video techniques, Terayama playfully—and with a silent film theatricality—posits a series of postmodern vignettes featuring realities-within-realities as his protagonist attempts some kind of relationship with a nude woman on the screen-within-the-screen. In his struggles to “free” her, he exposes the absurd flimsiness, deceptiveness and mutability of both the cinema experience and our human dimension.
About An Attempt to Describe the Measure of a Man
An Attempt to Describe the Measure of a Man is a 1978 animation, romance movie directed by Shūji Terayama.
The production information lists a runtime of 19m, production credits from Japan, an original language code of JA.
The credited cast includes Toshihiko Hino, Momo Yaguchi. The synopsis above summarizes the central premise without adding details beyond the available title information.
