Michio Okabe Movies
- 1968
Crazy Love
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Correlated with Susan Sontag's theorization of kitsch as well as employing the queer lingo of "camp," this film's relentless equal opportunity...
- 1970
Camp
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The title is a phonetical arrangement in kanji Chinese characters of camp, a concept synonymous with Michio Okabe. Okabe radically explores his...
- 1967
The Doctrine on Creation
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Borrowing the title from John Huston’s The Bible: in the Beginning (1966) (Tenchi Sozo in Japanese), Okabe aimed to paint the zeitgeist of the...
- 1973
Saijiki
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A unique road movie that took two years to make, based on the concept of "filming the changing seasons like a haiku poem". The men's journey,...
- 1970
Shiro, Where Are You Going
Shiro, Where Are You Going01970HD
Michio Okabe's only 8mm film, which was miraculously discovered in 2021 at the back of a closet in his room, after being unaccounted for and thought...
- 1977
Memoir
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Michio Okabe, considered an icon of 1960s Japanese underground cinema, pursued the principle of subjective cinema by combining images that interested...
- 1973
Boy-Taste
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In an esoteric temple, grown men return to their boyhood and play innocently. Model aeroplanes, paper butterflies, vehicles, tin toys... the things...