Mr O's Book of the Dead (1973)

  • NR
  • 01/01/1973 (JP)
  • 1h 30m

Overview

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, and just before he began touring the world as a solo dancer with his celebrated work Admiring La Argentina. In the film, Ohno leads a troupe of strangely dressed, made-up and gesticulating dancers through a succession of landscapes alternately lush, desolate and surreal.

Nagano Chiaki

Director

Cast

Kazuo Ohno's headshot

Kazuo Ohno

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