Tadanori Yokoo

Acting

Tadanori Yokoo

Born June 27, 1936 · Nishiwaki, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan (age 90)

Tadanori Yokoo (横尾 忠則, Yokoo Tadanori, born 27 June 1936) is a Japanese graphic designer, illustrator, printmaker and painter. Yokoo’s signature style of psychedelia and pastiche engages a wide span of modern visual and cultural phenomena from Japan and around the world.

Known For

Mishima: A Life in Four ChaptersMishima: A Life in Four Chapters · 1985
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
7.81985
MovieDrama
A fictional account of the life of Japanese author Yukio Mishima, combining dramatizations of three of his novels and a depiction of the events of November 25th, 1970.
Diary of a Shinjuku ThiefDiary of a Shinjuku Thief · 1969
Diary of a Shinjuku Thief
4.81969
MovieDramaComedy
In Tokyo's Shinjuku district, the lives of a young man prone to theft, a young woman he meets at a bookstore, and a kabuki actor intersect.
I'm No AngelI'm No Angel · 1977
I'm No Angel
7.01977
MovieDrama
A young couple lives together in a small apartment and struggles to keep their relationship together, despite inertia and financial hardship. Based on the comic Red Colored Elegy by Seiichi Hayashi.
Space Projection AkoSpace Projection Ako · 1970
Space Projection Ako
1970
Movie
Experimental film by Toshio Matsumoto created for the 1970 world's fair, Expo '70 in Osaka. The film was made up of multiple projections onto the inside of the Textile Pavilion, a dome with an interior designed by Yokoo Tadanori, and featured a 57-channel music score by Joji Yuasa.
Hi-Red Centre Shelter PlanHi-Red Centre Shelter Plan · 1964
Hi-Red Centre Shelter Plan
1964
Movie
Hi-Red Centre were comprised of Genpei Akasegawa, Natsuyuki Nakanishi and Jiro Takamatsu, who enacted ‘happening’-style performance art in unusual spaces during the early 1960s in Japan. The film is an extremely rare document of one of their early events, where they hired out a room in the Imperial Hotel and invited many friends and professionals in the art scene to participate in the occasion. The performance parodies Cold War fears and the construction of private bomb-shelters, as they diligently measure each guest’s weight and proportions in pretence that they are to build human-size shelters for each individual. Key figures of the art scene make an appearance, including Yoko Ono, video-artist Nam June Paik, noise artist Yasunao Tone, filmmaker Masao Adachi and graphic designer Tadanori Yokoo. A rarely seen and exceptional insight into the Japanese art scene of the era, Jonouchi records the event in his characteristically erratic style.
EXPO '70 Avant-Garde Memories - Searching for AkoEXPO '70 Avant-Garde Memories - Searching for Ako · 2025
EXPO '70 Avant-Garde Memories - Searching for Ako
2025
Movie
A documentary made in collaboration with students at Konan University, retracing the history of EXPO '70 and attempting to track down the actress who performed in Toshio Matsumoto's installation in the Textiles Pavilion, "Space Projection Ako." Featuring interviews with historians, scholars and artists including Yokoo Tadanori, Norio Imai, and more.
The OndekozaThe Ondekoza · 1981
The Ondekoza
7.31981
MovieDocumentaryMusic
A documentary profiling a Japanese taiko drumming group based in the remote Sado Island, Japan. The film blurs the line between real-life documentary footage of the troupe's training and practice regimes, and staged performances of their varied musical acts, with sets designed by artist Tadanori Yokoo and an additional experimental electronic music score by Toshi Ichiyanagi.
Kachi Kachi YamaKachi Kachi Yama · 1965
Kachi Kachi Yama
4.01965
MovieAnimation
After Alain Delon murders Elizabeth Taylor, he and Brigitte Bardot face attacks from The Beatles, hired by Richard Burton to kill the French couple and take revenge for his wife's death.

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Hi-Red Centre Shelter PlanHi-Red Centre Shelter Plan · 1964
Hi-Red Centre Shelter Plan
1964
Movie
Hi-Red Centre were comprised of Genpei Akasegawa, Natsuyuki Nakanishi and Jiro Takamatsu, who enacted ‘happening’-style performance art in unusual spaces during the early 1960s in Japan. The film is an extremely rare document of one of their early events, where they hired out a room in the Imperial Hotel and invited many friends and professionals in the art scene to participate in the occasion. The performance parodies Cold War fears and the construction of private bomb-shelters, as they diligently measure each guest’s weight and proportions in pretence that they are to build human-size shelters for each individual. Key figures of the art scene make an appearance, including Yoko Ono, video-artist Nam June Paik, noise artist Yasunao Tone, filmmaker Masao Adachi and graphic designer Tadanori Yokoo. A rarely seen and exceptional insight into the Japanese art scene of the era, Jonouchi records the event in his characteristically erratic style.