Terayama Shūji wa 1935-nen 12-gatsu 10-nichi, Aomori-ken Hirosaki-shi de umareta. Sakka, enshutsuka, eiga kantoku, tanka sakka toshite katsuyaku shi, nihon no avant-garde bijutsu no naka demo hijō ni eikyōryoku no aru sakka to sareteiru. 1945-nen ni chichioya ga sensō de nakunari, hahaoya wa amerika gun kichi de hataraku tame Kyūshū e isshō, Terayama wa Aomori no Misawa de sobo to issho ni kurashita. Kōkō wa Aomori-kenritsu Aomori Kōtōgakkō, daigaku wa Waseda Daigaku no Nihon bungaku senmon ni nyūgaku suru mo, byōki no tame chūtai. Shinjuku no bā de hatarakinagara jinsei o manabi, sono keiken wa sakuhin ni fukaku eikyō o ataeta. Kare wa "hon yori jinsei wa soto de manabu" to iu shisō o kakae, 1960-nendai no "fugitive undō" no chūshin ni ita. 1967-nen ni Tenjō Sajiki to iu gekidan o setsuritsu. Tadanori Yokoo, J.A. Seazer, Mikami Kan to tomoni avant-garde na engeki o tenkai shi, "Bluebeard", "Yes", "The Crime of Fatso Oyama" nado ga yūmei. Tanka no sakka toshite mo wakaki koro kara hyōka o uke, eiga kantoku toshite wa "Sho o Suteyo, Machi e Deyo" ya "Den'en ni Shisu" nado, shakai hihan to jikken-teki hyōgen de chūmoku o ateta. Saigo wa 1983-nen 5-gatsu 4-ka, Tōkyō no Suginami de kanzō shukketsu ni yori 47-sai de shibō. Tsuma Kyōko Kujō to wa rikon go mo kyōryoku o tsudzuketa.
