Tadanori Yokoo

Birthday: 1936-06-27

Place of Birth: Nishiwaki, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan

Biography: Tadanori Yokoo (横尾忠則, Yokoo Tadanori, born 27 June 1936) is a Japanese graphic designer, illustrator, printmaker and painter. Yokoo’s signature style of psychedelia and pastiche engages a wide span of modern visual and cultural phenomena from Japan and around the world.

Movies

Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters

A fictional account of the life of Japanese author Yukio Mishima, combining dramatizations of three ...

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Diary of a Shinjuku Thief

In Tokyo's Shinjuku district, the lives of a young man prone to theft, a young woman he meets at a b...

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ANPO: Art X War

ANPO: Art X War tells the story of Japan's historic resistance to U.S. military bases in Japan throu...

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Miwa: A Japanese Icon

A legendary entertainer and a pioneer of gay activism, Miwa was born Akihiro Maruyama. As a young si...

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Under the Skin

A documentary on sixties counterculture in Japan featuring Donald Richie, Tadanori Yokoo, Masao Adac...

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I'm No Angel

A young couple lives together in a small apartment and struggles to keep their relationship together...

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Hi-Red Centre Shelter Plan

Hi-Red Centre were comprised of Genpei Akasegawa, Natsuyuki Nakanishi and Jiro Takamatsu, who enacte...

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EXPO '70 Avant-Garde Memories - Searching for Ako

A documentary made in collaboration with students at Konan University, retracing the history of EXPO...

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