Tadanori Yokoo

ANPO: Art X War tells the story of Japan's historic resistance to U.S. military bases in Japan through an electrifying array of artwork created by Japan's foremost artists. The film articulates the insidious, lasting impact that the U.S. military presence has had on Japanese lives, and the creative processes that artists have devised to transmit the spirit of resistance.

A legendary entertainer and a pioneer of gay activism, Miwa was born Akihiro Maruyama. As a young singer, Miwa popularized androgyny as a fashion statement, fusing the masculine and the feminine into a signal of a new generation of aesthetics. This evolved into performing as a woman and living off-stage as a man. With glitter, wit, evening gowns, and enchanting storytelling, Miwa looks back over a 50-year career and a fascinating life in music, film and television.

A documentary on sixties counterculture in Japan featuring Donald Richie, Tadanori Yokoo, Masao Adachi, Koji Wakamatsu, Toshio Matsumoto and Akaji Maro among others.

Based on the comic Red Colored Elegy by Seiichi Hayashi

일본 소설가 미시마 유키오의 생애와 그의 세 소설 작품을 각각 흑백과 스타일 넘치는 컬러로 번갈아 가며 보여주는 독특한 구조의 이 영화는 삶과 예술을 하나로 통합하려했던 그의 최후 몸부림을 마지막 4장(부제가 '4장의 삶'이다)에서 그려내 내용과 형식의 긴밀함을 꾀하고 있다

A documentary profiling a Japanese taiko drumming group based in the remote Sado Island, Japan. The film blurs the line between real-life documentary footage of the troupe's training and practice regimes, and staged performances of their varied musical acts, with sets designed by artist Tadanori Yokoo and an additional experimental electronic music score by Toshi Ichiyanagi.

Experimental film by Toshio Matsumoto created for the 1970 world's fair, Expo '70 in Osaka. The film was made up of multiple projections onto the inside of the Textile Pavilion, a dome with an interior designed by Yokoo Tadanori, and featured a 57-channel music score by Joji Yuasa.

주인공 남자는 한 서점에서 하찮은 물건을 훔쳐 몰락의 길로 빠져든다. 이를 본 가게 점원에게 눈에 띈 그는 소녀의 섹스 상대와 더불어 사실상 노예나 다름없는 존재가 된다. 영화는 젊은이들의 성적인 탐닉과 학생운동의 혼란을 다큐멘터리 형식을 빌려 그려내고 있다. (한국시네마테크협의회 - 2010 오시마 나기사 회고전)

Tadanori Yooko superb animation.

Hi-Red Centre were comprised of Genpei Akasegawa, Natsuyuki Nakanishi and Jiro Takamatsu, who enacted ‘happening’-style performance art in unusual spaces during the early 1960s in Japan. The film is an extremely rare document of one of their early events, where they hired out a room in the Imperial Hotel and invited many friends and professionals in the art scene to participate in the occasion. The performance parodies Cold War fears and the construction of private bomb-shelters, as they diligently measure each guest’s weight and proportions in pretence that they are to build human-size shelters for each individual. Key figures of the art scene make an appearance, including Yoko Ono, video-artist Nam June Paik, noise artist Yasunao Tone, filmmaker Masao Adachi and graphic designer Tadanori Yokoo. A rarely seen and exceptional insight into the Japanese art scene of the era, Jonouchi records the event in his characteristically erratic style.

Yooko short animation.

Yooko short animation.

Yooko short animation.

Yooko short animation.

Animation by Tadanori Yokoo.

Animation by Tadanori Yokoo.