Motoharu Jônouchi Movies

The title Gewaltopia Trailer has a dual meaning in the Japanese language; one meaning for the word yokoku (trailer) could mean a compilation of...

Hi-Red Centre were comprised of Genpei Akasegawa, Natsuyuki Nakanishi and Jiro Takamatsu, who enacted ‘happening’-style performance art...

This extraordinary documentary is an unflinching record of the workers’ struggle during Japan’s economic rebirth in the 1980s, centered...

A popular poet, Goku, becomes depressed when his editor jokingly suggests that he is a sell-out.

Wols is the pseudonym for a German artist active in the early 20th century, Alfred Otto Wolfgang Schulze, and Jonouchi meticulously filmed nearly...

The Stormy Times is a collection of three short films created as a series of visual poems (Dream Running, Grasshopper’s One-Game Match, andWe...

"A work documenting Ankoku Butoh dancer Tatsuji Hijikata’s Revolt of the Flesh (Nikutai no hanran). The work established the relation between...

It’s said that people die twice. The first death is a physical one and the second, true death comes when there is no one to remember that...

"A film describing some unusual acts by youths attempting to break out of the stifling patterns of culture... daydreaming that yields them nothing. A...

The Shinjuku district was the epicentre of Tokyo's art scene and the political fever pitch where protests took place on a regular basis during the...

Documents the first demonstration that took place in front of the Nihon University in May of 1968. This is the first work in the "Gewaltpia" series...

Jonouchi, who documented various artists’ performances and events, turned the camera onto himself cutting his hair. Using the experimental...

This work is an extension of Jonouchi’s documentation of Hi-Red Center’s performance event, Shelter Plan (1964). Using the same unique...

"A work documenting the VAN Film Science Research Center’s space before shut down. VAN, which Jonouchi was a member, was established by the...

Short by Motoharu Jonouchi.

Experimental film by Motoharu Jonouchi comprised of both archival footage from the 1960s Japanese student riots and dramatised re-enactions. It was...

The late 1960s saw Japan in a fever pitch of political agitation where student protests were a frequent occurrence. A somewhat timely insight into...