MOKUJIKI

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Video ID number: V00093
Recording date: 1989

Overview

UHF Television Yamanashi's 20th anniversary programme 'Travel... the man who became a smiling Buddha: Retracing the steps of Mokujiki Shōnin over 20,000km'. The programme retraces the footsteps of Mokujiki Shōnin, who until the age of 93, travelled from Hokkaido to Kyushu at the end of the Edo period carving Buddha statues with iconic smiles, which later came to be known as 'Smiling Buddhas'. Starring Goi Teru, a butoh dancer from Hokkaido.

Details

Title: MOKUJIKI
Performance creator(s): Television Yamanashi Co.,Ltd.
Performance date(s): 1989
Performer(s) and staff: Performers: Teru Goi, Narration: Rentaro Mikuni
Music Director: Kazuo Uehara
Playwright: Makoto Okamura
Director: Makoto Okamura
Filming: Genkichi Hasegawa
Lighting: Tadao Ichikawa
Producer: Mariko Yoneyama
Production: Television Yamanashi
Production: Super Nova
Genre: Butoh