Mr Os Book of the Dead

Mr Os Book of the Dead is the last of a trilogy of experimental films about Kazuo Ohno cofounder of the contemporary Japanese style of dance known as butoh made with director Chiaki Nagano during a period in which he had retired from public performance and just before he began touring the world as a solo dancer with his celebrated work Admiring La Argentina In the film Ohno leads a troupe of strangely dressed madeup and gesticulating dancers through a succession of landscapes alternately lush desolate and surreal