Tatsumi Hijikata Movies

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...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Junko Miyashita

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...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Kei Satō

The myth of the Sun Goddess who founded Japanese society is seen through the lens of a modern view of history.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shima Iwashita

Filmed only a few months after Tatsumi Hijikata’s first explosive public butoh performance, “Gisei” features Hijikata and members...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Tatsumi Hijikata

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...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Kazuo Ohno

Comprising historic archive footage and texts this DVD box enlightens us greatly about Yoshito Ohno's here and now. Butoh has a distinct starting...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Yoshito Ohno

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...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Meiko Kaji

A cultural film documenting Butoh dancer Tatsumi Hijikata as he is taken out of his stage space and dances in the streets. 16mm.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Tatsumi Hijikata

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...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Teruo Yoshida

The dark sensibilities and cultural resonances of Butoh, the radical Japanese dance movement, are explored in this multilayered work. Profoundly...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Tatsumi Hijikata

"A work documenting Ankoku Butoh dancer Tatsuji Hijikata’s Revolt of the Flesh (Nikutai no hanran). The work established the relation between...

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Cast: Tatsumi Hijikata

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...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Tatsumi Hijikata

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...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Tatsumi Hijikata

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...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Tatsumi Hijikata

Three stories of moral sickness set during Japan’s prosperous Genroku era are told in this bloody follow-up to the sexploitation classic...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Teruo Yoshida

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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Cast: Akaji Maro

Short film in which butoh dancing is used to reflect on the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

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Cast: Tatsumi Hijikata

Comedy about sexy chambermaids at a hot spring resort.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Masumi Tachibana

A series of short stories about bizarre crimes committed by females in the Meiji, Taisho, and Showa Eras. Discover 4 famous Japanese murderers:...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Teruo Yoshida

This anthology film consists of nine incidents in the late 19th and early 20th centuries when assassins changed the course of Japanese history.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

"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...

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Cast: Yoko Ashikawa