Yoshito Ohno
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Flowerbird Butoh: A Way of Life
2015-01-01
Flowerbird Butoh: A Way of Life
Overview: Comprising historic archive footage and texts this DVD box enlightens us greatly about Yoshito Ohno's here and now. Butoh has a distinct starting point, namely, in 1959, with Kinjiki , a duet featuring Tatsumi Hijikata and Yoshito Ohno. His father, the legendary Kazuo Ohno created another epoch-making opus in 1977 Admiring La Argentina, with Yoshito Ohno as production manager. These links are no mere coincidence. To date, we've tended to overlook Yoshito Ohno, barely granting him the recognition he merits. Just as dance requires a lengthy gestation period in which to evolve, his dance has finally come into our field of vision, in all its freshness and stark-nakedness, linking Butoh's origins to its zenith, to a point where he now stands at a crossroads.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-01-01
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“O, King God!”
2003-01-01
“O, King God!”
Overview: "O,Kind God!"is another take on Kazuo Ohno. This moving testimony to the effects his physical evolution has had on his every-day life and dance reveals yet even more strongly that ever-present and life embracing emotions so characteristic of all his previous work. In his appearance in Venice (1999) and a series of performances in his home in Yokohama in 2001, Ohno powerfully demonstrated that his dance embodies life in all its aspects. (Now, though physically immobile), Ohno's very presence continues to exude emotion: it overflows with facial expressions and delicate hand movements; fluid as water and changeable as the sky. This documentary reveals what dance is truly about. Kazuo has given us something very precious.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-01-01
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Butoh: Body on the Edge of Crisis
1990-01-01
Butoh: Body on the Edge of Crisis
Overview: "Butoh: Body on the Edge of Crisis" is a visually striking film portrait shot on location in Japan with the participation of the major Butoh choreographers and their companies. Although Butoh is often viewed as Japan's equivalent of modern dance, in actuality it has little to do with the rational principles of modernism. Butoh is a theater of improvisation which places the personal experiences of the dancer on center-stage. By reestablishing the ancient Japanese connection of dance, music, and masks, and by recalling the Buddhist death dances of rural Japan, Butoh incorporates much traditional theater. At the same time, it is a movement of resistance against the abandonment of traditional culture to a highly organized consumer-oriented society.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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Navel and A-Bomb
1960-10-21
Navel and A-Bomb
Overview: Short film in which butoh dancing is used to reflect on the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-10-21
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Kazuo Ohno: I Dance Into the Light
2004-11-20
Kazuo Ohno: I Dance Into the Light
Overview: A documentary about legendary butoh dancer Kazuo Ohno.
Genres: TV Movie Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-11-20
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Invisible People
2024-03-13
Invisible People
Overview: Invisible People is a multi-layered depiction of the unique Japanese contemporary dance Butoh that flows between revolt, eroticism, trance, prayer, ancestral experience, and physical anonymity. The film gradually drifts away from its core issue and becomes a general portrayal of life itself, with all its unforeseen strokes of fate and strange micro-connections.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-03-13
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A Monster with Its Mouth Agape
2024-11-24
A Monster with Its Mouth Agape
Overview: Taking inspiration from the haunting Japanese dance/performance art form Butoh, the film offers a cinematic interpretation of this singular style of expression. With high contrast, exaggerated grain, abstracted colors and flickering frames, A Monster with Its Mouth Agape captures the unsettling and chaotic climate of post-war Japan. Featuring a rare audio recording of Butoh master Yoshito Ohno.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2024-11-24
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