Uzumi - The Power to Open a Wind Cave

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

Uneven Steps charts the Butoh body as it moves, struggles and convulses in its tussle with pain. It moves to connect, yearning to dissolve its...

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...

Jet black, an accumulation of layer after layer of darkness Attracting the light, a fragrant color Something appearing from the interior depths

The Naked Summer is a film that documents young artists' effort and growth while training and preparing for a performance of Butou that is praised...

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...

A man details his crimes and pleasures within an armchair to an adulterer who sees the people in his life as nothing more than objects.

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...

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

A documentary about legendary butoh dancer Kazuo Ohno.

WHAT IS BUTOH? A French butoh dancer visits Japan for the first time, to pursue this ultimate question. Lead by the shadows of Tatsumi Hijikata, the...

After finding out that her husband, Rudi, has a fatal illness, Trudi Angermeier arranges a trip to Berlin so they can see their children. Of course,...