Butoh Movies

This work has been long-awaited as a masterpiece which is not performed in public since it was staged 31 years ago in 1989. This valuable video will...

Fill the goblet of lapis Iazuli With the life, joy, sorrow, death of this whole universe. This goblet must scoop up all. Who drifts in the isle of...

A Butoh Performance by Butoh Company Kiraza.

Uneven Steps charts the Butoh body as it moves, struggles and convulses in its tussle with pain. It moves to connect, yearning to dissolve its...

The Naked Summer is a film that documents young artists' effort and growth while training and preparing for a performance of Butou that is praised...

The work contains Butoh works and methods by Tomoe Shizune in omnibus format. It will be re-edited and published based on what was provided as the...

WHAT IS BUTOH? A French butoh dancer visits Japan for the first time, to pursue this ultimate question. Lead by the shadows of Tatsumi Hijikata, the...

This documentary pierces the mystery and mystique of a dance movement adored by the West and largely ignored by the Japanese. It uses archival and...

“Butoh,” literally “dance of darkness,” is an avant-garde form of dance from Japan that few know about, and even fewer...