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Bookmark this pageThe Boxer (1977)
Director: Shuji Terayama
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
Terayama has here brilliantly fused the elements of his previous film and theatre work - surrealism, a sense of the essential anarchy of relationships, and a flair for startling and beautiful images - with a compulsively exciting Hollywood-style narrative about a young man's relentless ambition to be a champion boxer. The film synthesises these seemingly disparate approaches while allowing them separate existences, and through this evokes not only a poetic vision of modern industrial Tokyo and the fading dreams of the city's losers, but also a tense and realistic portrayal of the sheer brutaulity of the world of boxing, in its inexorable attraction and its heroic despair.Author: SM
Cast & crew
Director: Shuji Terayama
Producer: Yoshihiro Kojima
Cast: Kentaro Shimizu, Bunta Sugawara, Masumi Harukawa, Yoko Natsuki, Keiko Niitaka, Yoko Ran full cast
Duration: 94 mins
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