Movies:

  • 2001
    Kazuo Ohno: Beauty and Strength

    Kazuo Ohno: Beauty and Strength (2001)

    Kazuo Ohno: Beauty and Strength

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    In the 60's and into the 70's, Kazuo Ohno himself produced three 16mm films. His many performances at the "Teatro Fonte" in Yokohama have been preserved with high quality Beta cameras. In addition, the television station NHK has made recordings of ma...

    Kazuo Ohno: Beauty and Strength
  • 1995
    The Written Face

    The Written Face (1995)

    The Written Face

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    In Japanese theater, women's roles are traditionally played by men. The man playing the woman's role, the Onnagata, does not imitate the woman, as in the West, but tries to capture her significance. He need not stick close to his model, but draws far...

    The Written Face
  • 1989
    Dance of Darkness

    Dance of Darkness (1989)

    Dance of Darkness

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    The dark sensibilities and cultural resonances of Butoh, the radical Japanese dance movement, are explored in this multilayered work. Profoundly rooted in both traditional and contemporary Japanese culture, Butoh arose in a spirit of revolt in the ea...

    Dance of Darkness
  • 1990
    Butoh: Body on the Edge of Crisis

    Butoh: Body on the Edge of Crisis (1990)

    Butoh: Body on the Edge of Crisis

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    "Butoh: Body on the Edge of Crisis" is a visually striking film portrait shot on location in Japan with the participation of the major Butoh choreographers and their companies. Although Butoh is often viewed as Japan's equivalent of modern dance, in ...

    Butoh: Body on the Edge of Crisis
  • 2004
    Kazuo Ohno: I Dance Into the Light

    Kazuo Ohno: I Dance Into the Light (2004)

    Kazuo Ohno: I Dance Into the Light

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    A documentary about legendary butoh dancer Kazuo Ohno....

    Kazuo Ohno: I Dance Into the Light
  • 1991
    Just Visiting This Planet

    Just Visiting This Planet (1991)

    Just Visiting This Planet

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    Peter Sempel's masterful poetic film tribute to butoh performer Kazuo Ohno....

    Just Visiting This Planet
  • 2006
    9.11-8.15 Nippon Suicide Pact

    9.11-8.15 Nippon Suicide Pact (2006)

    9.11-8.15 Nippon Suicide Pact

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    A film that reconsiders the modern state of Japan in relation to the 9/11 terrorist attacks in the U.S....

    9.11-8.15 Nippon Suicide Pact
  • 2015
    Flowerbird Butoh: A Way of Life

    Flowerbird Butoh: A Way of Life (2015)

    Flowerbird Butoh: A Way of Life

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    Comprising historic archive footage and texts this DVD box enlightens us greatly about Yoshito Ohno's here and now. Butoh has a distinct starting point, namely, in 1959, with Kinjiki , a duet featuring Tatsumi Hijikata and Yoshito Ohno. His father, t...

    Flowerbird Butoh: A Way of Life
  • 1988
    Dandy

    Dandy (1988)

    Dandy

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    A selection of seemingly unconnected scenes featuring Nick Cave, Blixa Bargeld, Nina Hagen and Lene Lovich. Losely based on Voltaire's satire "Candide"....

    Dandy
  • 1980
    Dress Rehearsal

    Dress Rehearsal (1980)

    Dress Rehearsal

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    An exhilarating, essayistic documentary about the 1980 festival of experimental theatre in the French city of Nancy. Werner Schroeter's favourite of his own films....

    Dress Rehearsal
  • 2003
    “O, King God!”

    “O, King God!” (2003)

    “O, King God!”

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    "O,Kind God!"is another take on Kazuo Ohno. This moving testimony to the effects his physical evolution has had on his every-day life and dance reveals yet even more strongly that ever-present and life embracing emotions so characteristic of all his ...

    “O, King God!”
  • 1963
    The Masseurs

    The Masseurs (1963)

    The Masseurs

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    Anma (The Masseurs) is a representative and historical work by the creator of Butoh dance, Tatsumi Hijikata in his early period in the 1960s. The film is realized not only as a dance document but also as a Cine-Dance, a term made by Iimura, that is m...

    The Masseurs
  • 1965
    Rose Color Dance

    Rose Color Dance (1965)

    Rose Color Dance

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    A document of Tatsumi Hijikata's Butoh dance with Kazuo Ohno as the guest dancer shot in Hijikata's early period when he was emerging as the originator of Butoh. All of the male dancers are dressed up with evening suits and move gracefully, yet an in...

    Rose Color Dance
  • 1995
    Kazuo Ohno

    Kazuo Ohno (1995)

    Kazuo Ohno

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    Kazuo Ohno, Father of the Butoh Dance, first appeared on stage at the age of 43. He left the stage only at the age of one hundred, three years before he died. This short dialogue less film presents the exceptional range of expressions that this Japan...

    Kazuo Ohno
  • 1973
    Mr O's Book of the Dead

    Mr O's Book of the Dead (1973)

    Mr O's Book of the Dead

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    Mr O’s Book of the Dead is the last of a trilogy of experimental films about Kazuo Ohno, co-founder of the contemporary Japanese style of dance known as butoh, made with director Chiaki Nagano during a period in which he had retired from public perfo...

    Mr O's Book of the Dead
  • 1971
    Mandala of Mr O

    Mandala of Mr O (1971)

    Mandala of Mr O

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    Mandala of Mr O is the second of a trilogy of experimental films about Kazuo Ohno, co-founder of the contemporary Japanese style of dance known as butoh, made with director Chiaki Nagano during a period in which he had retired from public performance...

    Mandala of Mr O
  • 1969
    A Portrait of Mr O

    A Portrait of Mr O (1969)

    A Portrait of Mr O

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    A Portrait of Mr O is the first of a trilogy of experimental films about Kazuo Ohno, co-founder of the contemporary Japanese style of dance known as butoh, made with director Chiaki Nagano during a period in which he had retired from public performan...

    A Portrait of Mr O
  • 2005
    Ohno Kazuo: Hitori-goto no yō ni

    Ohno Kazuo: Hitori-goto no yō ni (2005)

    Ohno Kazuo: Hitori-goto no yō ni

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    This documentary follows one of the creators of the japanese dance Butoh, Kazuo Ohno, 95, and his son, Yoshito Ohno....

    Ohno Kazuo: Hitori-goto no yō ni
  • 1991
    The Scene of the Soul

    The Scene of the Soul (1991)

    The Scene of the Soul

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    Starring Kazuo Ohno, an inspirational figure in Butoh dance....

    The Scene of the Soul