butoh dancers-turned-actors

J.sharp j.sharp
Tue May 1 07:53:42 EDT 2007


Coming in a bit late on the discussion, one that hasnt been mention yet is
Natsu Nakajima, the girl who stripped down to her bare chrysanthemum in
Masao Adachi's Sex Play. I believe it was her only movie appearance.

Jasper

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From: KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
To: KineJapan <KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu>
Subject: butoh dancers-turned-actors
Date: 26/04/07 16:23

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> Here is one question I've had floating around since the festival:
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> While in the audience in Frankfurt I was surprised to see Min Tanaka
> popping up both as the aging drag queen in La Maison de Himiko, and
> as the voice of a yakuza in the anime Tekkon Kinkreet. Tanaka made
> his film debut a few years back in a couple of Yoji Yamada jidai-
> geki. Akaji Maro has also been active as an actor for some time now.
> I was wondering, besides the more experimental films of Hijikata and
> Ohno, if anyone knows of other examples of butoh dancers shifting
> into acting work. In a way it makes perfect sense as a career
> trajectory - all that weighty presence, at least in Tanaka's case,
> really works up on screen.
>
> Thanks again to everyone for the fantastic conference!
>
> Paul Roquet
> UC Berkeley
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