The avant-garde stage and film director, poet, critic, author and founder of the experimental theater group Tenjo Sajiki, Shuji Terayama (1935-83), influenced theater the world over with his iconoclastic plays such as "Mink Marie," "Heretics" and "Directions to Servants."
From the early 1970s, his troupe began receiving numerous invitations from abroad, making a huge impact wherever they went in the way they destroyed the border between reality and fiction and presented stages full of strange and wonderful spectacles.
Speaking personally, I will never forget how my mind would fill with doubts about so-called common sense after watching a Terayama production in that era.