Released:
1979-11-03

Overview:
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.

Director:
Shūji Terayama

Runtime:
0h 42min

Genre:
Drama, Fantasy

• Cast:
• 
  Hiroshi Mikami
  as
  Young Akira
• 
  Takeshi Wakamatsu
  as
  Akira
• 
  Keiko Niitaka
  as
  Mother
• 
  Jūzō Itami
  as
  Principal / Priest / Old man
• 
  Miho Fukuya
  as
  Girl