![Butoh: Body on the Edge of Crisis](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//d0oL3ZhqBXIiUTxErdu3dBj3HHu.jpg)
Butoh: Body on the Edge of Crisis
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"Butoh: Body on the Edge of Crisis" is a visually striking film portrait shot on location in Japan with the participation of the major Butoh choreographers and their companies. Although Butoh is often viewed as Japan's equivalent of modern dance, in actuality it has little to do with the rational principles of modernism. Butoh is a theater of improvisation which places the personal experiences of the dancer on center-stage. By reestablishing the ancient Japanese connection of dance, music, and masks, and by recalling the Buddhist death dances of rural Japan, Butoh incorporates much traditional theater. At the same time, it is a movement of resistance against the abandonment of traditional culture to a highly organized consumer-oriented society.
Cast
![Yoko Ashikawa](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Yoko Ashikawa
Herself - Interviewee
![Akiko Motofuji](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Akiko Motofuji
Herself - Interviewee
![Nario Goda](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Nario Goda
Himself
![Tatsumi Hijikata](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//uvDK1WvB0991qGKbvzjlF2vKN4T.jpg)
Tatsumi Hijikata
Himself
![Yukio Waguri](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Yukio Waguri
Himself
![Akaji Maro](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//bP3ynmujuqy3XmDuMjcLW3FkSpS.jpg)
Akaji Maro
Himself
![Natsu Nakajima](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Natsu Nakajima
Herself
![Sanae Hiruta](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Sanae Hiruta
Herself
![Kazuo Ohno](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//3xZ760OO9kGDXSwznMPDLJN7muz.jpg)
Kazuo Ohno
Himself
![Min Tanaka](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//ymiIaxK8U60otoo8JqFdDbon8kA.jpg)
Min Tanaka
Himself
![Ushio Amagatsu](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Ushio Amagatsu
![Yoshiyuki Takada](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Yoshiyuki Takada
![Keiji Morita](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Keiji Morita
![Goro Namerikawa](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Goro Namerikawa
![Atsushi Ogata](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Atsushi Ogata
![Masaku Kaita](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Masaku Kaita
![Toshiyuki Tanigawa](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Toshiyuki Tanigawa
![Ko Murobushi](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Ko Murobushi
![Koichi Tamano](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Koichi Tamano
![Shusei Asada](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Shusei Asada
![Hikaru Otsubo](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Hikaru Otsubo
![Katsuyoshi Yamamura](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Katsuyoshi Yamamura
![Kinya Tsuruyama](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Kinya Tsuruyama
![Nobutaka Kuwabara](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Nobutaka Kuwabara
![Mutsuo Tanaka](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Mutsuo Tanaka
![Chiyomi Tamura](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Chiyomi Tamura
![Yuri Sakurai](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Yuri Sakurai
![Makiko Tominaga](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Makiko Tominaga
![Fumie Hippo](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Fumie Hippo
![Takako Suzuki](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Takako Suzuki
![Satomi Kawakami](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Satomi Kawakami
![Haruko Kudo](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Haruko Kudo
![Yumiko Saeki](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Yumiko Saeki
![Ima Tenko](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//l7DiXhdBPAPYZcsXVXiWYBJT2GD.jpg)
Ima Tenko
![Norikazu Sato](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Norikazu Sato
![Norio Imanishi](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Norio Imanishi
![Naruhiko Kadawa](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Naruhiko Kadawa
![Arawakasyu](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Arawakasyu
![Ritsu Minatama](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Ritsu Minatama
![Ine Yatsushima](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Ine Yatsushima
![Tsuruko Noguchi](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Tsuruko Noguchi
![Kasumi Muraki](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Kasumi Muraki
![Torio Nogi](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Torio Nogi
![Ismau Ohsuka](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Ismau Ohsuka
![Hideki Nakazato](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Hideki Nakazato
![Yoichi Mori](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Yoichi Mori
![Karuko Aiyama](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Karuko Aiyama
![Kao Arahata](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Kao Arahata
![Yukara Nakai](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Yukara Nakai
![Tomoe Shizune](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Tomoe Shizune
![Harumi Kitaguchi](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Harumi Kitaguchi
![Ea Sola](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Ea Sola
![Hisako Horikawa](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Hisako Horikawa
![Frank Van De Ven](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Frank Van De Ven
![Francois Evangilisti](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Francois Evangilisti
![Sei Nagatsuka](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Sei Nagatsuka
![Yasunari Tamai](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Yasunari Tamai
![Andres Salgado](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Andres Salgado
![Tess de Quincy](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Tess de Quincy
![Kyoko Komatsu](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Kyoko Komatsu
![Christine Quoiraud](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Christine Quoiraud
![Katerina Bakatsaki](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Katerina Bakatsaki
![Naoyuki Oguri](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Naoyuki Oguri
![Shoko Ashikawa](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Shoko Ashikawa
![Seisaku Ashikawa](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Seisaku Ashikawa
![Mito Ashikawa](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Mito Ashikawa
![Yukinko Ashikawa](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Yukinko Ashikawa
![Uzumi Ashikawa](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Uzumi Ashikawa
![Megumi Ashikawa](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Megumi Ashikawa
![Tetsuo Sakaibara](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Tetsuo Sakaibara
![Takeru Kono](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Takeru Kono
![Sadahiko Irisawa](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Sadahiko Irisawa
![Yoshito Ohno](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//iONsCnniPjgQpccOR03Q4oumrtz.jpg)