Emperor Tomato Ketchup (film)

Emperor Tomato Ketchup
Film poster for 1996 re-release
Kanjiトマトケチャップ皇帝
Revised HepburnTomato Kechappu Kōtei
Directed byShūji Terayama
Written byShūji Terayama
Produced byArt Theatre Guild
StarringKeiko Niitaka (新高恵子)
Salvador Tari (サルバドール・タリ)
Distributed byDaguerreo Press
Release dates
  • 1971 (1971)
  • January 27, 1996 (1996-01-27)
Running time
75 min (1970)
27 min (1971)
75 min (1996)
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese

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 A "director's cut" of sorts, attempting to recreate the film as originally made, was released as a 75-minute feature in 1996, thirteen years after Terayama's death.[1][2]

A twelve minute abridgement of the film, Rock Paper Scissors War (ジャンケン戦争, Jan-ken-sensō), was also released in 1971.[3]

  1. ^ トマトケチャップ皇帝 (in Japanese). jmdb.ne.jp JMDB. Retrieved 6 December 2012.
  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. Archived from the original on 26 April 2016. Retrieved 6 December 2012.
  3. ^ "ジャンケン戦争 の映画情報". Yahoo!映画 (in Japanese). Retrieved 7 October 2022.