Throw
Away Your Books and Rally on the Street (1971)
"Probably
the pick of the bunch. Good soundtrack, from memory"
Pastoral:
To Die in the Country (1974)
"Another
film by Terayama. I preferred Throw Away Your Books, but this one is still
worth a look."
Funeral
Parade of Roses (1969)
"A
gay inversion of Oedipus Rex, as performed by Japanese transsexuals. Said to be
an influence on Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange."
House
(1977)
"Imagine
a shampoo commercial crossed with a horror film. It is easily one of the
strangest films I have ever seen"
"Note:
Don’t watch the trailer – it doesn’t do the film justice and would spoil the
surprises."
Himiko
(1974)
"Pitched
somewhere between performance art and narrative feature, I enjoyed the film but it’s
probably not to most people’s taste."
Black
Tight Killers (1966)
"Campy
fun with a well-judged tone."
Kwaidan
(1965)
"Not
really ‘trippy’, but the sets and cinematography are extraordinary. An
indisputable work of art." http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058279/?ref_=nv_sr_1
Available
on DVD.
And one non-Japanese suggestion from Andrew:
Jerzy
Skolimowski's Deep End from I970 (starring Jane Asher, and featuring a cameo by
Diana Dors)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066122/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066122/
When I commented that "I’m
sucker for all that sixties stuff. split screens, trip scenes etc....
Still
haven’t grown out of being wowed by The Knack (And How To Get it)..."
Andrew pointed out that Deep End "isn’t
trippy. It’s more grimy and dour, in an England’s-best-years-are-behind-it kind
of way.
"I
don´t like colour movies and I can hardly think about colour. It really
cheapens things for me and there´s never been a colour movie I've freaked out
over except one, this thing called Deep End, which had really great art
direction." - -
David Lynch, 1982
Here's the whole thing but with Italian subtitles....
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