Ankoku Butoh is a style of avant-garde dance that established itself in the counter culture experimental arts scene of post WWII Japan. The dance form is thought to have been founded by Tatsumi Hijikata, who both created and performed in butoh pieces from the late 1950’s - through the early 1970’s. In butoh, the style of movement is extremely stylized and deliberate, vacillating between slow and sharp, expressing feelings of dread, sexualization, violence, calmness, birth and “creatureness” among other things. This 1973 performance of Summer Storm at Kyoto University was Hijikata’s last public performance before his death in 1986.
Three stories of moral sickness set during Japan’s prosperous Genroku era are told in this bloody follow-up to the sexploitation classic Shogun’s Joy of Torture, the politically incorrect moral lessons paint a trio of tales of tragic heroines caught up in violence, sadomasochism, incest and torture.
근친상간, 강간, 고문 등 터부의 “이상 성애 노선“ 작품. 에도시대를 배경으로 죄를 고백해 형에 처해진 주인공. 그런 그녀가 오빠를 죽이기에 이른 경위, 여승방에서 승려와 비구니가 금지된 사랑에 질투, 참살한 비구니의 사건, 문신을 조각하기 위해 가세를 기울게 해 고문을 교사 한 문신사의 사건이 끔직한 영상으로 그려지고 있다.
