Yoshihiro Katô

Yoshihiro Katô

Nacimiento : , Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan

Muerte : 2018-02-09

Historia

Yoshihiro Katō (1936-2018) was an artist and one of the founding members, along with Shinichi Iwata, of the avant-garde arts group Zero Jigen (Zero Dimension) in the early 1960s. Beginning with Haitsukubari kōshin (Crawling Procession), staged in January 1963 in the Sakae district of Nagoya, over a long period of time they executed an extraordinary number of performances known as “Rituals” in Tokyo and elsewhere.

Perfil

Yoshihiro Katô
Yoshihiro Katô

Películas

Historias de una Geisha dorada
Historias de una Geisha dorada
Reflejo de la vida cotidiana japonesa desde el fabuloso mundo de una Geisha, mujer que tradicionalmente trae suerte a los hombres. (FILMAFFINITY)
Brahmin
Brahmin
Director
After the Expo ’70 Destruction Joint-Struggle Group disbanded, Katō released Brahmin (Burāmin, 1971-76).
The White Hare of Inaba
The White Hare of Inaba
Director
The White Hare of Inaba is a film directed by Katō Yoshihiro, a central member of Zero Jigen, with cinematography by the filmmaker Ōe Masanori. Drawing on the Japanese myth of the white hare of Inaba, it presents a white hare (i.e. woman) leaping across waters full of ferocious sharks (i.e. male-dominated society), presenting a vision for a new era while capturing on film the joy of human beings’ inherent Eros and a new mode of “family” that breaks free of feudalistic social constraints.
Funeral Parade of Roses
Funeral Parade of Roses
La traidicional sociedad nipona también ha ofrecido una gran película, la experimental de Toshio Matsumoto que se centra en la vida de los transexuales de Tokio durante los años 60.
The Sea Anemone
The Sea Anemone
Kashiwagi
The story of a sexy girl with a passion for attracting men and counting the money she entices from them with her body.
The Deserted Archipelago
The Deserted Archipelago
A young man reaches adolescence and escapes the nunnery where he survived a tortured upbringing; the world outside suddenly seems even more frightening than before.
Cybele: A Pastoral Ritual in Five Scenes
Cybele: A Pastoral Ritual in Five Scenes
A documentary of an avant-garde theatre performance, presents an orgiastic rite of sex, degradation, and bloody sacrifice, performed by Zero-Jigen.