Mr O's Book of the Dead

Name: Mr O's Book of the Dead
Released: 1973-01-01
Duration: 90 min
Rating: 6.5
Cast: Kazuo Ohno

Ｏ氏の死者の書

6.5 (2)1973-01-011h 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.