Pastoral: To Die in the Country (1974)
Original title: 田園に死す
Pastoral: To Die in the Country is a 1974 Japanese-language fantasy movie directed by Shūji Terayama, with a running time of 1h 41m. It stars Kantarō Suga, Hiroyuki Takano and Chigusa Takayama.
A director faces creative block while working on his latest film, a reimagination of his adolescence growing up in a mountain village in rural Japan.
Cast
- Kantarō Suga as Shuji
- Hiroyuki Takano as Young Shuji
- Chigusa Takayama as Shuji's Mother
- Kaoru Yachigusa as Married woman
- Keiko Niitaka as Pregnant
- Masumi Harukawa as Air woman
- Izumi Hara as Phantom of old woman
- Yoshio Harada as Arashi
- Masahiro Saito as Longsocks
- J.A. Seazer as Tengu Kurama
- Isao Kimura as Film Critic
- Kiyoshi Awazu as Poet