Michio Okabe

Michio Okabe

Michio Okabe (1937-2020) began his activities as an artist in the mid-1960s, participating in the contemporary artist group Off Museum. He interacted with groups such as Neo-Dada and Hi Red Center, as well as artists like Ushio Shinohara, and presented at Yomiuri Independent exhibition (1964), Big Fight exhibition (1965), a solo exhibition at Naiqua Gallery (1965), as well as street performances. Influenced by Kenneth Anger’s Scorpio Rising (1963), Okabe made his first film work Tenchi Sozosetsu (creation tale, 1965), which received a prize at the Sogetsu experimental film festival. Thereafter he made Crazy Love (1968), Camp (1970), Shiroyo Dokoe Iku (Shiro, where are you going, 1970), Shonen Shiko (1973, won a grand prize at Knokke-le-Zoute International Film Festival), Saijiki (1973), and Kaisoroku (1977). The works that sublimate Susan Sontag’s thinking on camp into Okabe’s original camp aesthetic, have been highly received and have screened in Japan and abroad. Besides film production, Okabe published fantastical short stories through reading programs on radio, magazines, fantasy literature anthologies, as well as his own book. Okabe passed away in September, 2020.

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  • Also Known As: 岡部道男, Okabe Michio
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Michio Okabe Movies

  • 1967
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    The Doctrine on Creation

    The Doctrine on Creation

    5 1967 HD

    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...

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  • 1968
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    Crazy Love

    Crazy Love

    3 1968 HD

    Correlated with Susan Sontag's theorization of kitsch as well as employing the queer lingo of "camp," this film's relentless equal opportunity...

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  • 1973
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    Saijiki

    Saijiki

    1 1973 HD

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  • 1970
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    Shiro, Where Are You Going

    Shiro, Where Are You Going

    1 1970 HD

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  • 1968
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    Crazy Love

    Crazy Love

    3 1968 HD

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  • 1968
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    Crazy Love

    Crazy Love

    3 1968 HD

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  • 1968
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    Crazy Love

    Crazy Love

    3 1968 HD

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  • 1968
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    Crazy Love

    Crazy Love

    3 1968 HD

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  • 1977
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    Memoir

    Memoir

    1 1977 HD

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  • 1973
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    Boy-Taste

    Boy-Taste

    1 1973 HD

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  • 1968
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    Crazy Love

    Crazy Love

    3 1968 HD

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  • 1967
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    The Doctrine on Creation

    The Doctrine on Creation

    5 1967 HD

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  • 1967
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    The Doctrine on Creation

    The Doctrine on Creation

    5 1967 HD

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  • 1970
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    Camp

    Camp

    2.5 1970 HD

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  • 1967
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    The Doctrine on Creation

    The Doctrine on Creation

    5 1967 HD

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