Yayoi Kusama
Also Known As: 草間彌生
Biography: Yayoi Kusama, is a Japanese artist and writer. She started to paint using polka dots and nets as motifs at around age ten ,and created fantastic paintings in watercolors, pastels and oils. Yayoi travelled to the United States in 1957. Showed large paintings, soft sculptures, and environmental sculptures using mirrors and electric lights. In the latter 1960s, she staged many happenings such as body painting festivals, fashion shows and anti-war demonstrations. She launched media-related activities such as film production and newspaper publication. In 1968, she produce and starred in the film "Kusama's Self-Obliteration".
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Nagano, Japan
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Tokyo Decadence
Overview: A submissive hooker goes about her trade, suffering abuse at the hands of Japanese salarymen and Yakuza types. She's unhappy about her work, and is apparently trying to find some sort of appeasement for the fact that her lover has married.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-01-06
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Kusama's Self-Obliteration
Overview: A film exploration of the work and aesthetic concepts of Yayoi Kusama, painter, sculptor, and environmentalist, conceived in terms of an intense emotional experience with metaphysical overtones, an extension of my ultimate interest in a total fusion of the arts in a spirit of mutual collaboration. —Jud Yalkut
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-12-31
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Flowers
Overview: While I was staying in New York in the 1960s during the rise of the hippie movement, I filmed performances of body painting by the artist, Kusama Yayoi, together with the performers. As I wasn't satisfied with merely documenting her performance, made super-impositions of flowers over the performance, more as a film poem than a documentary, since flowers was the symbol of the hippie movement as given the name "flower children."
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-01-01
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The Inexhaustible Creations of Yayoi Kusama
Overview: Japanese avant-garde artist Yayoi Kusama is best known for her inexhaustible creations involving polka dots, pumpkins, and vibrant colors. Her love of design has seen her join forces with top fashion houses.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-05-15
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Yayoi Kusama
Overview: Yayoi Kusama born March 22, 1929 is a Japanese artist and writer. Throughout her career she has worked in a wide variety of media, including painting, collage, scat sculpture, performance art, and environmental installations, most of which exhibit her thematic interest in psychedelic colors, repetition and pattern. A precursor of the pop art, minimalist and feminist art movements, Kusama influenced contemporaries such as Andy Warhol, Claes Oldenburg and Yoko Ono.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-05-22
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Yayoi Kusama: I Love Me
Overview: Captures the avant-garde artist Yayoi Kusamas creative process as she diligently works to complete her series of 50 large monochrome drawings. As her work comes to life, one can witness the essence of her art as it wells up in the conflict between life, death, and love.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-02-02
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Polka Dot Superstar: The Amazing World of Yayoi Kusama
Overview: This film follows Yayoi Kusama during the preparations for Tate Modern's 2012 retrospective of her work, when she undertook the mammoth physical and mental challenge of creating 100 new works for the largest-ever exhibition of her art.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-09-10
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Kusama: Infinity
Overview: Now one of the world’s most celebrated artists, Yayoi Kusama broke free of the rigid society in which she was raised, and overcame sexism, racism, and mental illness to bring her artistic vision to the world stage. At 88 she lives in a mental hospital and continues to create art.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-09-07
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Bad Girls of Japan
Overview: Are bad girls casualties of patriarchy, a necessary evil, or visionary pioneers? By tracing the concept of the bad girl in Japan as a product of specific cultural assumptions and historical settings, Bad Girls of Japan maps new roads and old detours in revealing a disorderly politics of gender. The essays explore deviancy in richly diverse media. Mountain witches, murderers, performance artists, cartoonists, schoolgirls, and shoppers gone wild are all part of the terrain.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-08-20
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Basara no Hana (Flowers of Extravagance)
Overview: In April 1985 Kusama staged a performance in the cherry tree grove at Kuhonbutsu Jōshin-ji, a Buddhist temple in Tokyo. Commissioned by a professor at Tokyo University, the performance was titled Basara no Hana (Flowers of Extravagance) in reference to the extravagance of the fourteenth-century lord Dōyo Sasaki. He was said to have held a lavish celebration of cherry blossoms near Kyoto that lasted twenty days. For the performance, Kusama encircled the flowering trees with red and white streamers, connecting them in a ‘net’.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1985-01-01
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Song of a Manhattan Suicide Addict
Overview: She recites a poem about life, death, heaven and the eternal, standing against projections of her immersive environments and paintings.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-01-01
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