The War of Jan-Ken-Pon

1971 | 12 minutes | 9.0 ★ (1)

The War of Jan-Ken-Pon
  • Overview

    Paper-Scissor-Rock wars draws an episode where the two generals portray the Second World War, mostly through the rock-scissors-bag, but also by some absurd torture techniques that bring to mind some sort of Japanese artificial 70s jack ass. To the sound of classical music, birds chirping and Nazi incendiary speeches travels generals, ever contestant in the seemingly meaningless game around at an abandoned industrial area.

  • Release Date

    01 January 1971

  • DirectingShūji Terayama
  • Budget

    $0.00

  • Revenue

    $0.00

  • Stars

Videos

User Reviews

See more

More Like This

Cyclepaths

Cyclepaths

An old woman is carrying shopping bags. A child with a gun is riding a scooter. Birds are flying. A city is falling. A party is lit.

See more
23rd Psalm Branch

23rd Psalm Branch

Made during the height of the Vietnam War, Stan Brakhage has said of this film that he was hoping to bring some clarity to the subject of war...

See more
The Man Who Lies

The Man Who Lies

A man may or may not have betrayed a resistance fighter during World War II. He has supposedly been shot down by the Nazis and wanders into town...

See more
Rosa Rosa

Rosa Rosa

A married woman has an affair. She gets pregnant by her lover and they live serenely together, although war is thundering towards their city...

See more
8½

Guido Anselmi, a film director, finds himself creatively barren at the peak of his career. Urged by his doctors to rest, Anselmi heads for a...

See more
The Seventh Seal

The Seventh Seal

When disillusioned Swedish knight Antonius Block returns home from the Crusades to find his country in the grips of the Black Death, he challenges...

See more
Totem Talk

Totem Talk

Traditional Northwestern Indigenous spiritual images combined with cutting-edge computer animation in this surreal short film about the power of...

See more
Orchard Street

Orchard Street

This short film documents the daily life of the goings-on on Orchard Street, a commercial street in the Lower East Side New York City.

See more
Jack's Dream

Jack's Dream

A lucid dream turned nightmarish reality. A ship sinking into a world of fear. A short film that’s mostly puppetry by one of America's most...

See more
every expression artistic without apparent meaning

every expression artistic without apparent meaning

Five artistic expressions with no apparent meaning.

See more
RE VO LU TION

RE VO LU TION

Four acts: RE-VO-LU-TION.

See more
anamorphic

anamorphic

Three acts. The term anamorphosis is used in several areas of knowledge (from the Greek word anamorfosis – reformation, return to form, reiteration...

See more
Frank Zappa: The Present-Day Composer Refuses To Die

Frank Zappa: The Present-Day Composer Refuses To Die

Frank Zappa: The Present-Day Composer Refuses To Die is a 2000 documentary about Frank Zappa.

See more
Frank Zappa: Phase II - The Big Note

Frank Zappa: Phase II - The Big Note

Frank Zappa: Phase Two is a 2002 documentary about Frank Zappa. It features a lot of footage from Scheffer's previous film, but new material from...

See more
Big Bang Love, Juvenile A

Big Bang Love, Juvenile A

An unknown future. A boy confesses to the murder of another in an all-boy juvenile detention facility. More an exercise in style than storytelling,...

See more
River of Fundament

River of Fundament

Visionary artist Matthew Barney returns to cinema with this 3-part epic, a radical reinvention of Norman Mailer’s novel Ancient Evenings. In...

See more
Between Science and Garbage

Between Science and Garbage

A whirlwind of improvisation combines the images of animator Pierre Hébert with the avant-garde sound of techno whiz Bob Ostertag in this singular...

See more
Einstein on the Beach: The Changing Image of Opera

Einstein on the Beach: The Changing Image of Opera

The creative processes of avant-garde composer Philip Glass and progressive director/designer Robert Wilson are examined in this film. It documents...

See more
The Baby of Mâcon

The Baby of Mâcon

Set halfway through the 17th century, a church play is performed for the benefit of the young aristocrat Cosimo. In the play, a grotesque old woman...

See more
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover

The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover

The wife of an abusive criminal finds solace in the arms of a kind regular guest in her husband's restaurant.

See more