Grass Labyrinth

Grass Labyrinth

41 mins | Drama, Romance, Fantasy | Jan. 1, 1979

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 the labyrinth of her mansion, just as the young man is lost in the labyrinth of time — and on some levels, perhaps the labyrinth of his subconscious.

Grass Labyrinth

41 mins | Drama, Romance, Fantasy | Jan. 1, 1979

Grass Labyrinth
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 the labyrinth of her mansion, just as the young man is lost in the labyrinth of time — and on some levels, perhaps the labyrinth of his subconscious.
IMDb rating 7.3
Producers Jinriki Hikoki Sha
Original title 草迷宮
Directors Shinji Sômai, Shūji Terayama
Writers Rio Kishida, Izumi Kyōka, Shūji Terayama

Cast

Hiroshi Mikami

as Young Akira

Keiko Niitaka

as Mother

Juzo Itami

as Principal / Priest / Old man

Miho Fukuya

as Girl