Emperor Tomato Ketchup (1971)

Original title

トマトケチャップ皇帝

Directed by

Shūji Terayama

Genre

drama film, pornographic film, experimental film

Country

Japan

Runtime

1h 12m

Rated

III

Rating

5.5 of 10 from 32 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Children take over a city and impose their own rules in a bizarre uprising. The film mixes documentary footage with surreal staged scenes and a discordant soundtrack.

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What happens

Emperor Tomato Ketchup (トマトケチャップ皇帝, Tomato Kechappu Kōtei) is a Japanese short experimental film made by Shūji Terayama in 1970. A 27-minute cut was released in 1971. A "director's cut" of sorts, attempting to recreate the film as originally made, was released as a 75-minute feature in 1996, thirteen years after Terayama's death. A twelve minute abridgement of the film, Rock Paper Scissors War (ジャンケン戦争, Jan-ken-sensō), was also released in 1971. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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