Tatsumi Hijikata
Orgies of Edo
as Ankoku Butoh dancerThree stories of moral sickness set during Japan’s prosperous Genroku era are told in this...
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Horrors of Malformed Men
as Jôgorô KomodaAfter escaping from an insane asylum, a medical student assumes the identity of a mysterious...
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Blind Woman's Curse
as Ushimatsu / Hunchback DancerAkemi is a dragon tattooed leader of the Tachibana Yakuza clan. In a duel with a rival gang...
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Himiko
as DancerThe myth of the Sun Goddess who founded Japanese society is seen through the lens of a modern...
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Love and Crime
as uncreditedA series of short stories about bizarre crimes committed by females in the Meiji, Taisho, and...
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Evil Spirits in the Darkness
as uncreditedThe film depicts the youth of Kinzo, a heretic painter who worked in Tosa during the late Edo...
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Memoir of Japanese Assassinations
as JailerThis anthology film consists of nine incidents in the late 19th and early 20th centuries when...
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Kaze no keshiki
as SelfA cultural film documenting Butoh dancer Tatsumi Hijikata as he is taken out of his stage space...
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Butoh: Body on the Edge of Crisis
as Himself"Butoh: Body on the Edge of Crisis" is a visually striking film portrait shot on location in...
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Dance of Darkness
as HimselfThe dark sensibilities and cultural resonances of Butoh, the radical Japanese dance movement,...
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Daring Girls
as uncreditedComedy about sexy chambermaids at a hot spring resort.
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Sacrifice
as uncreditedFilmed only a few months after Tatsumi Hijikata’s first explosive public butoh performance,...
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Rose Color Dance
as uncreditedA document of Tatsumi Hijikata's Butoh dance with Kazuo Ohno as the guest dancer shot in...
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Magino Village: A Tale
as uncreditedThe movie compiles footage taken by Ogawa Production for a period of more than ten years after...
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Navel and A-Bomb
as uncreditedShort film in which butoh dancing is used to reflect on the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and...
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Tatsumi Hijikata
as Dancer"A work documenting Ankoku Butoh dancer Tatsuji Hijikata’s Revolt of the Flesh (Nikutai no...
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Evil Spirits of Japan
as LeaderMurase is a bodyguard of yakuza group. Ochiai is a police officer who once was a student...
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Flowerbird Butoh: A Way of Life
as uncreditedComprising historic archive footage and texts this DVD box enlightens us greatly about Yoshito...
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The Masseurs
as uncreditedAnma (The Masseurs) is a representative and historical work by the creator of Butoh dance,...
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A Summer Storm: Butoh of Dark Spirit School
as uncreditedAnkoku Butoh is a style of avant-garde dance that established itself in the counter culture...
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Kazuo Ohno: Beauty and Strength
as uncreditedIn the 60's and into the 70's, Kazuo Ohno himself produced three 16mm films. His many...
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