Watch Sacrifice (1959) Online

Filmed only a few months after Tatsumi Hijikata’s first explosive public butoh performance, “Gisei” features Hijikata and members of his Asbestos Hall Troupe in a brutal allegory of a closed society. Shot by noted Japanese film scholar Donald Richie, “Gisei” still conveys the shock that Japanese audiences in 1959 must have felt at the birth of Hijikata's ankoku butoh, or "dance of darkness". Richie met Hijikata through mutual friend Yukio Mishima. They decided to collaborate on a film about segregation. Richie memorialized the film in his diary: “It is more than ever about the death of an individual, a distinct kind of human sacrifice.” Read More

Watch Sacrifice online. Featuring Tatsumi Hijikata, Sacrifice is classified as Horror genre movie with an average rating across the web of 0. It is available for streaming online in the UK The movie was filmed in Japan and was released on 1959. Sacrifice was directed by Donald Richie. Read Less