細江英公 / 「へそと原爆」 (1960)

In Eikoh Hosoe’s film Navel and A-Bomb, featuring Hijikata Tatsumi (土方巽) and his choreography, the (Japanese) body is connected to the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the utter destruction of Japan. Navel and A-Bomb (1960) figures the ’birth’ of a new Japanese identity in the wake of the atomic catastrophe, the subsequent defeat and occupation of Japan. Hosoe met Hijikata the year prior to Navel and A-Bomb. In 1959 Hijikata choreographed and performed Kinjiki (Forbidden Colors), based on the homosex