Tatsumi Hijikata(1928-1986)

Actor

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Tatsumi Hijikata in Orgies sadiques de l'ère Edo (1969)

Butoh, a theater of improvisation, places the personal experiences of the dancer on center-stage. With expressions ranging from meditative tenderness to excessive grotesqueness, Butoh is one of the most fascinating underground dance movements. Butoh: Body on the Edge of Crisis is a striking portrait shot on location in Japan, featuring the major Butoh choreographers and their companies.

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Butoh: Body on the Edge of Crisis (1990)

Tatsumi Hijikata was born on 3 March 1928 in Akita, Japan. He was an actor, known for Déviances et passions (1969), Nihon ansatsu hiroku (1969) and The Blind Woman's Curse (1970). He died on 21 January 1986 in Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan.

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Known for

Déviances et passions (1969)

Déviances et passions

6.3

Executioner Beheading Oden Takahashi (segment "Takahashi Oden")

1969

Nihon ansatsu hiroku (1969)

Nihon ansatsu hiroku

7.5

Actor

1969

Meiko Kaji in The Blind Woman's Curse (1970)

The Blind Woman's Curse

6.5

Ushimatsu , Hunchback dancer

1970

Kôkeimu (1964)

5.6

Actor

1964

Credits

Actor

Cine Dance: The Butoh of Tatsumi Hijikata
Video
- 2005
Himiko
7.0
- Dancer
- 1974
Chimimoryo une âme au diable
6.2
- 1971
Nippon no akuryo
6.8
- Leader
- 1970
The Blind Woman's Curse
6.5
- Ushimatsu , Hunchback dancer
- 1970
L'effrayant Docteur Hijikata
6.4
- Jôgorô Komoda
- 1969
Nihon ansatsu hiroku
7.5
- 1969
Déviances et passions
6.3
- Executioner Beheading Oden Takahashi (segment "Takahashi Oden")
- 1969
Orgies sadiques de l'ère Edo
6.1
- Dancer
- 1969
Kôkeimu
5.6
- 1964
Anma
6.3
Short
- Tatsumi Hijikata
- 1963

Videos1

Butoh: Body on the Edge of Crisis trailer

Butoh: Body on the Edge of Crisis trailer

Personal details

Born
- March 3, 1928
- Akita, Japan
Died
- January 21, 1986
- Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan(liver cancer)

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Trivia
The first butoh piece, Kinjiki (Forbidden Colours) by Tatsumi Hijikata, premiered at a dance festival in 1959. It was based on the novel of the same name by Yukio Mishima. It explored the taboo of homosexuality and ended with a live chicken being smothered between the legs of Kazuo Ohno's son Yoshito Ohno, after which Hijikata chasing Yoshito off the stage in darkness. Mainly as a result of the audience outrage over this piece, Hijikata was banned from the festival, establishing him as an iconoclast.

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