An Attempt to Describe the Measure of a Man
An Attempt to Describe the Measure of a Man
1978, Japanese. Directed by Shūji Terayama.
Using bluescreen video techniques, Terayama playfully—and with a silent film theatricality—posits a series of postmodern vignettes featuring realities-within-realities as his protagonist attempts some kind of relationship with a nude woman on the screen-within-the-screen. In his struggles to “free” her, he exposes the absurd flimsiness, deceptiveness and mutability of both the cinema experience and our human dimension.
- Runtime
- 0h 19m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- Japanese
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- Released
- 2 February 1978
- Original title
- 一寸法師を記述する試み
- Country
- Japan
- Written by
- Shūji Terayama, Rio Kishida
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An Attempt to Describe the Measure of a Man isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 2 February 1978. (Checked 14 November 2026.)
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Who directed An Attempt to Describe the Measure of a Man?
An Attempt to Describe the Measure of a Man (1978) was directed by Shūji Terayama and stars Toshihiko Hino, Momo Yaguchi.