Sadahiko Irisawa

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 text for the Butoh course at the Grotowski Institute, Poland by Tomoe Shizune & Hakutobo, 2018. The Grotowski Institute is engaged in a wide range of research related to physical expression, as well as physical training based on the research of the prominent Polish director Jeray Grotowski (1933-1999) who founded the experimental theater "Teatr Laboratorium" in 1959. The coaction between Tomoe's music and Butoh is highlight.

"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.

L'autopsie de Sadako révèle qu'elle est restée près de trente ans vivante, murée dans son puits. Ni la découverte de son cadavre, ni la destruction de la cassette vidéo maudite sur laquelle son image apparaissait ne semblent en mesure de stopper sa soif de vengeance.Désormais, le petit Yoichi, ayant survécu à la vision de la vidéo maléfique, est le seul à pouvoir lutter contre Sadako. En se voyant doté de pouvoirs psychiques, il est tombé dans un mutisme radical. Pour remédier à cela, une mathématicienne va tenter de chasser ses démons.