Tatsumi Hijikata

Movies

Magino Village: A Tale

The movie compiles footage taken by Ogawa Production for a period of more than ten years after the c...

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Evil Spirits of Japan

Murase is a bodyguard of yakuza group. Ochiai is a police officer who once was a student activist. W...

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Himiko

The myth of the Sun Goddess who founded Japanese society is seen through the lens of a modern view o...

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Sacrifice

Filmed only a few months after Tatsumi Hijikata’s first explosive public butoh performance, “Gisei” ...

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Flowerbird Butoh: A Way of Life

Comprising historic archive footage and texts this DVD box enlightens us greatly about Yoshito Ohno'...

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Kazuo Ohno: Beauty and Strength

In the 60's and into the 70's, Kazuo Ohno himself produced three 16mm films. His many performances a...

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Blind Woman's Curse

Akemi is a dragon tattooed leader of the Tachibana Yakuza clan. In a duel with a rival gang Akemi sl...

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Kaze no keshiki

A cultural film documenting Butoh dancer Tatsumi Hijikata as he is taken out of his stage space and ...

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Horrors of Malformed Men

After escaping from an insane asylum, a medical student assumes the identity of a mysterious dead ma...

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Dance of Darkness

The dark sensibilities and cultural resonances of Butoh, the radical Japanese dance movement, are ex...

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"A work documenting Ankoku Butoh dancer Tatsuji Hijikata’s Revolt of the Flesh (Nikutai no hanran). ...

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Rose Color Dance

A document of Tatsumi Hijikata's Butoh dance with Kazuo Ohno as the guest dancer shot in Hijikata's ...

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A Summer Storm: Butoh of Dark Spirit School

Ankoku Butoh is a style of avant-garde dance that established itself in the counter culture experime...

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The Masseurs

Anma (The Masseurs) is a representative and historical work by the creator of Butoh dance, Tatsumi H...

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Orgies of Edo

Three stories of moral sickness set during Japan’s prosperous Genroku era are told in this bloody fo...

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Evil Spirits in the Darkness

The film depicts the youth of Kinzo, a heretic painter who worked in Tosa during the late Edo period...

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Navel and A-Bomb

Short film in which butoh dancing is used to reflect on the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasa...

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Daring Girls

Two sisters involved in rival underworld sex trade factions compete against each other in this tale ...

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Love and Crime

A series of short stories about bizarre crimes committed by females in the Meiji, Taisho, and Showa ...

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Memoir of Japanese Assassinations

This anthology film consists of nine incidents in the late 19th and early 20th centuries when assass...

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Butoh: Body on the Edge of Crisis

"Butoh: Body on the Edge of Crisis" is a visually striking film portrait shot on location in Japan w...

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