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 performance, and just before he began touring the world as a solo dancer with his celebrated work Admiring La Argentina. In the film, Ohno leads a troupe of strangely dressed, made-up and gesticulating dancers through a succession of landscapes alternately lush, desolate and surreal.
After finding out that her husband, Rudi, has a fatal illness, Trudi Angermeier arranges a trip to B...
A documentary about legendary butoh dancer Kazuo Ohno.
Ankoku Butoh is a style of avant-garde dance that established itself in the counter culture experime...
Peter Sempel's masterful poetic film tribute to butoh performer Kazuo Ohno.
Short film in which butoh dancing is used to reflect on the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasa...
The dark sensibilities and cultural resonances of Butoh, the radical Japanese dance movement, are ex...
After escaping from an insane asylum, a medical student assumes the identity of a mysterious dead ma...
A selection of seemingly unconnected scenes featuring Nick Cave, Blixa Bargeld, Nina Hagen and Lene ...
Anma (The Masseurs) is a representative and historical work by the creator of Butoh dance, Tatsumi H...
"Butoh: Body on the Edge of Crisis" is a visually striking film portrait shot on location in Japan w...
The Naked Summer is a film that documents young artists' effort and growth while training and prepar...
A document of Tatsumi Hijikata's Butoh dance with Kazuo Ohno as the guest dancer shot in Hijikata's ...
Siblings Enzo and Magda have drifted apart, and in an attempt to reconnect, Magda invites her brothe...
In the 60's and into the 70's, Kazuo Ohno himself produced three 16mm films. His many performances a...
A Butoh Performance by Butoh Company Kiraza.
Adriana, a young woman on the verge of suicide, has her plans interrupted when Memo, a deliveryman, ...
This work has been long-awaited as a masterpiece which is not performed in public since it was stage...
Jet black, an accumulation of layer after layer of darkness Attracting the light, a fragrant color ...
“Butoh,” literally “dance of darkness,” is an avant-garde form of dance from Japan that few know abo...
Comprising historic archive footage and texts this DVD box enlightens us greatly about Yoshito Ohno'...