Mr O's Book of the Dead

(1973)

★ 6.5 IMDb · 2 votes

Year: 1973

Runtime: 90 мин

Country: Japan

Director: Nagano Chiaki

Cast: 大野一雄

Plot

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.