Emperor Tomato Ketchup (1971)

19711h 12mdir. Shūji TerayamaJapaneseJapandrama filmexperimental film

With Keiko Niitaka

Directed by Shūji Terayama

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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 A "director's cut" of sorts, attempting to recreate the film as originally made, was released as a 75-minute feature in 1996, thirteen years after Terayama's death.

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