Mr O's Book of the Dead (1973)

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Director

Chiaki Nagano

Runtime

90 minutes

Original release date

1973-01-01 (TMDB; may differ from the UK release)

Original title

Ｏ氏の死者の書

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.