Tatsumi Hijikata: Summer Storm

UPC: 880198116093

Studio: Microcinema

Summary: This culminating release from avant-garde dancer Tatsumi Hijikata captures the performer's final performance, Summer Storm, recorded at the Westside Auditorium of Kyoto University in 1973. Recorded on 8mm film, the footage was restored in 2003, so it could be provided to audiences for home viewing. ~ Cammila Collar, Rovi

Category: Avant-garde / Exp

Features: Video Interview with Film Scholar Donald Richie
Still Gallery

Tatsumi Hijikata: Summer Storm

Format: DVD

Release Date: 10/26/2010

Audio: 2 Europe, Japan, Middle East, Egypt, South Africa, Greenland

Runtime: 71 Minutes

Sides: 1

Number of Discs: 1

Subtitles: English

Region: Universal Compatability

Chapters: Disc #1 -- Tatsumi Hijikata: Summer Storm
1. Intro [:11]
2. A Girl [2:20]
3. Girls Picking Herbs [10:58]
4. The Spirits Of The Bon Festival l [5:38]
5. Dreams Of The Dead; The Sleep; The War [1:23]
6. The Spirits Of The Bon Festival ll [4:57]
7. Asaoka Ruriko Poem [3:30]
8. Statues Of Rakans [1:02]
9. Dance Of Rakans [:10]
10. Leprosy l [3:12]
11. Leprosy ll [3:58]
12. Ice [1:11]
13. Three Fly-Girls [3:41]
14. Harvesting Of Gibasa At Iwadate [4:51]
15. Dance Of Gibasa [3:58]
16. Three Bellemers [1:36]
17. Curtain Call - Final Bows [2:30]
18. Snow - Epilogue [8:28]
19. Credits [3:19]

Cast and Crew: YAS-KAZ  Composer (Music Score) 
Misao Arai  Director 
Roto Visage  Composer (Music Score)