X (Batsu)

1960 15m Dir. Toru Takemitsu

About this movie

A man marks everything he encounters with an X, from telephone poles to fruit and books he fondles in markets to a woman he pursues who lies on the ground, first clothed, then unclothed. As he caresses her back. he puts X’s along her spine. Later, when he draws an X on a storefront. he is beaten and dragged off by businessmen. The allegorical batsu can be either consent or rejection, or the mark of individualism. putting an identifying (or accepting) mark on the world. A private 16mm neo-Dadaist film made by Shuntaro Tanikawa and Toru Takemitsu, who were passionately talking about movies, with a playful mind. Naozumi Yamamoto, who is also a composer and conductor, writes the "X" sign all the time. At first, the film was planned to compose in jazz, but in the end, the music was completed without being able to be included

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Year
1960
Runtime
15m
Director
Language
EN

Cast

🎬 Toru Takemitsu 👤 Naozumi Yamamoto
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X (Batsu) has a runtime of 15m ( and 15 minutes).
X (Batsu) was directed by Toru Takemitsu and released in 1960.
The cast of X (Batsu) includes Naozumi Yamamoto.

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