Emperor Tomato Ketchup (film)

Emperor Tomato Ketchup
Hepburn Tomato Kechappu Kōtei
Directed by Shūji Terayama
Produced by Art Theatre Guild
Written by Shūji Terayama
Starring Keiko Niitaka
Salvador Tari
Distributed by Daguerreo Press
Release date
  • 1971 (1971)
  • January 27, 1996 (1996-01-27)
Running time
 27 min (1971)
75 min (1996)
Country Japan
Language Japanese

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. A 27 minute cut was released in 1971. A "director's cut" of sorts, attempting to recreate the film as originally made in 1970, was released as a 75-minute feature in 1996, 13 years after Terayama's death.[1][2]

Plot

A young boy is the emperor of a country in which children have overthrown the adults.

Cast

  • Keiko Niitaka
  • Salvador Tari
  • Tarō Apollo
  • Mitsufumi Hashimoto

Influence

The British alternative rock band Stereolab named their 1996 album Emperor Tomato Ketchup after the film.

References

  1. ↑ トマトケチャップ皇帝 (in Japanese). jmdb.ne.jp JMDB. Retrieved 2012-12-06.
  2. ↑ あらすじ・解説 - トマトケチャップ皇帝　オリジナル完全版 (in Japanese). movie.goo.ne.jp. Retrieved 2012-12-06.


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