Film's Ghosts: Tatsumi Hijikata's Butoh and the Transmutation of 1960s Japan

by Stephen Barber

Tokyo during the 1960s was in a state of uproar, full of protests, riots, and insurrection. Tatsumi Hijikata--the initiator of the "Butoh" performance art and the seminal figure in Japan's experimental arts culture of the 1960s--created his most famous works in the context of that turmoil, his experimental film projects and his horror and erotic films uniquely invoking the intensity of the decade. Based on original interviews with Hijikata's collaborators...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3035801479
• ISBN13: 9783035801477
• Release Date: August 2019
• Publisher: Diaphanes
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.6" x 8.8"