Yoshito Ohno
Actor
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MovieDocumentaryInvisible 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.
Invisible People
2025
Movie8.0Documentary"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.
Butoh: Body on the Edge of Crisis
1990 · 2 votes
MovieTV MovieDocumentaryA documentary about legendary butoh dancer Kazuo Ohno.
Movie5.3Short film in which butoh dancing is used to reflect on the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.