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Kazuo Ohno

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Movies Starring Kazuo Ohno (19)

Flowerbird Butoh: A Way of Life (2015)

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 leg ...

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Kazuo Ohno: Like a Soliloquy (2007)

This documentary follows one of the creators of the japanese dance Butoh, Kazuo Ohno, 95, and his son, Yoshito Ohno. ...

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9.11-8.15 Nippon Suicide Pact (2006)

A film that reconsiders the modern state of Japan in relation to the 9/11 terrorist attacks in the U.S. ...

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Kazuo Ohno: I Dance Into the Light (2004)

A documentary about legendary butoh dancer Kazuo Ohno. ...

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"O, Kind God!" (2003)

"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 previo ...

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Kazuo Ohno: Beauty and Strength (2001)

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 preserved with high quality Beta cameras. In addition, the television station NHK has made recordings of many of ...

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The Written Face (1995)

In Japanese theater, women's roles are traditionally played by men. The man playing the woman's role, the Onnagata, does not imitate the woman, as in the West, but tries to capture her significance. He need not stick close to his model, but draws far more ...

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Kazuo Ohno (1995)

Kazuo Ohno, Father of the Butoh Dance, first appeared on stage at the age of 43. He left the stage only at the age of one hundred, three years before he died. This short, dialogue-less film presents the exceptional range of expressions that this Japanese d ...

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Just Visiting This Planet (1991)

Peter Sempel's masterful poetic film tribute to butoh performer Kazuo Ohno. ...

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The Scene of the Soul (1991)

Starring Kazuo Ohno, an inspirational figure in Butoh dance. ...

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Butoh: Body on the Edge of Crisis (1990)

"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 actual ...

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Dance of Darkness (1989)

The dark sensibilities and cultural resonances of Butoh, the radical Japanese dance movement, are explored in this multilayered work. Profoundly rooted in both traditional and contemporary Japanese culture, Butoh arose in a spirit of revolt in the early 19 ...

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Dandy (1988)

A selection of seemingly unconnected scenes featuring Nick Cave, Blixa Bargeld, Nina Hagen and Lene Lovich. Losely based on Voltaire's satire "Candide". ...

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Dress Rehearsal (1980)

An exhilarating, essayistic documentary about the 1980 festival of experimental theatre in the French city of Nancy. Werner Schroeter's favourite of his own films. ...

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Mr O's Book of the Dead (1973)

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 ...

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Mandala of Mr O (1971)

Mandala of Mr O is the second 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 ...

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A Portrait of Mr O (1969)

A Portrait of Mr O is the first 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, an ...

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Rose Color Dance (1965)

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 originator of Butoh. All of the male dancers are dressed up with evening suits and move gracefully, yet an intruder ...

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The Masseurs (1963)

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 is realized not only as a dance document but also as a Cine-Dance, a term made by Iimura, that is meant t ...

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Movies Made By Kazuo Ohno (1)

Kazuo Ohno: Beauty and Strength (2001)

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 preserved with high quality Beta cameras. In addition, the television station NHK has made recordings of many of ...

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