Movies: Kazuo Ohno
- 2001
Kazuo Ohno: Beauty and Strength (2001)
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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...
- 1995
The Written Face (1995)
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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...
- 1989
Dance of Darkness (1989)
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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...
- 1990
Butoh: Body on the Edge of Crisis (1990)
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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 ...
- 2004
Kazuo Ohno: I Dance Into the Light (2004)
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A documentary about legendary butoh dancer Kazuo Ohno....
- 1991
Just Visiting This Planet (1991)
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Peter Sempel's masterful poetic film tribute to butoh performer Kazuo Ohno....
- 2006
9.11-8.15 Nippon Suicide Pact (2006)
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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....
- 2015
Flowerbird Butoh: A Way of Life (2015)
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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...
- 1988
Dandy (1988)
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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"....
- 1980
Dress Rehearsal (1980)
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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....
- 2003
“O, King God!” (2003)
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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 ...
- 1963
The Masseurs (1963)
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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...
- 1965
Rose Color Dance (1965)
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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...
- 1995
Kazuo Ohno (1995)
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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...
- 1973
Mr O's Book of the Dead (1973)
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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...
- 1971
Mandala of Mr O (1971)
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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...
- 1969
A Portrait of Mr O (1969)
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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...
- 2005
Ohno Kazuo: Hitori-goto no yō ni (2005)
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This documentary follows one of the creators of the japanese dance Butoh, Kazuo Ohno, 95, and his son, Yoshito Ohno....
- 1991
The Scene of the Soul (1991)
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Starring Kazuo Ohno, an inspirational figure in Butoh dance....