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Documentary filmmaker, and later a Daidou-jutsu researcher. Director of Kazuo Ohno’s Mr. O trilogy ‘Portrait of Mr. O’, ‘Mandala of Mr. O’ and ‘Mr. O’s Book of the Dead’.
In 1964 he directed a documentary film called 'Some Young People' about young people searching for new art forms featuring Neo Dada artists and Yoko Ono. In search of the avant-garde form emerging from Japan at the time, he attended Kazuo Ohno’s workshop, and filmed and directed the Mr. O trilogy between 1969-1976. After making his final film ‘Sutehijiri Ippen Shōnin den’ [Biography on the Holy Man of Renunciation: Ippen Shōnin] in 1979, he devoted himself to the study and practice of Laozi and Taoism.