Tatsumi Hijikata Movies
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Magino Village: A Tale
Magino Village: A TaleMOVIE
The movie compiles footage taken by Ogawa Production for a period of more than ten years after the collective moved to Magino village. Unique to this...
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Evil Spirits of Japan
Evil Spirits of JapanMOVIE
Murase is a bodyguard of yakuza group. Ochiai is a police officer who once was a student activist. When they meet, they are surprised how identical th...
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Himiko
HimikoMOVIE
The myth of the Sun Goddess who founded Japanese society is seen through the lens of a modern view of history.
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Sacrifice
SacrificeMOVIE
Filmed only a few months after Tatsumi Hijikata’s first explosive public butoh performance, “Gisei” features Hijikata and members of his Asbestos Hall...
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Kazuo Ohno: Beauty and Strength
Kazuo Ohno: Beauty and StrengthMOVIE
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 preserv...
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Flowerbird Butoh: A Way of Life
Flowerbird Butoh: A Way of LifeMOVIE
Comprising historic archive footage and texts this DVD box enlightens us greatly about Yoshito Ohno's here and now. Butoh has a distinct starting poin...
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Blind Woman's Curse
Blind Woman's CurseMOVIE
Akemi is a dragon tattooed leader of the Tachibana Yakuza clan. In a duel with a rival gang Akemi slashes the eyes of an opponent and a black cat appe...
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Kaze no keshiki
Kaze no keshikiMOVIE
A cultural film documenting Butoh dancer Tatsumi Hijikata as he is taken out of his stage space and dances in the streets. 16mm.
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Horrors of Malformed Men
Horrors of Malformed MenMOVIE
After escaping from an insane asylum, a medical student assumes the identity of a mysterious dead man, who appears to be his doppelganger, and gets lu...
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Dance of Darkness
Dance of DarknessMOVIE
The dark sensibilities and cultural resonances of Butoh, the radical Japanese dance movement, are explored in this multilayered work. Profoundly roote...
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Tatsumi Hijikata
Tatsumi HijikataMOVIE
"A work documenting Ankoku Butoh dancer Tatsuji Hijikata’s Revolt of the Flesh (Nikutai no hanran). The work established the relation between Revolt o...
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Rose Color Dance
Rose Color DanceMOVIE
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 originato...
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A Summer Storm: Butoh of Dark Spirit School
A Summer Storm: Butoh of Dark Spirit SchoolMOVIE
Ankoku Butoh is a style of avant-garde dance that established itself in the counter culture experimental arts scene of post WWII Japan. The dance form...
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The Masseurs
The MasseursMOVIE
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...
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Orgies of Edo
Orgies of EdoMOVIE
Three stories of moral sickness set during Japan’s prosperous Genroku era are told in this bloody follow-up to the sexploitation classic Shogun’s Joy...
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Evil Spirits in the Darkness
Evil Spirits in the DarknessMOVIE
The film depicts the youth of Kinzo, a heretic painter who worked in Tosa during the late Edo period, and the hurricane-like inner side of his life.
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Navel and A-Bomb
Navel and A-BombMOVIE
Short film in which butoh dancing is used to reflect on the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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Daring Girls
Daring GirlsMOVIE
Comedy about sexy chambermaids at a hot spring resort.
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Love and Crime
Love and CrimeMOVIE
A series of short stories about bizarre crimes committed by females in the Meiji, Taisho, and Showa Eras. Discover 4 famous Japanese murderers: Takah...
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Memoir of Japanese Assassinations
Memoir of Japanese AssassinationsMOVIE
This anthology film consists of nine incidents in the late 19th and early 20th centuries when assassins changed the course of Japanese history.