Navel and A Bomb ( Heso to genbaku) Eikoh Hosoe and Tatsumi Hijikata

Navel and ABomb (Heso to genbaku) short film directed by Eikoh Hosoe and Tatsumi Hijikata. In Hosoe Eikoh s film Navel and ABomb, featuring Hijikata Tatsumi and his choreography, the (Japanese) body is connected to the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the utter destruction of Japan. Navel and ABomb (1960) figures the birth of a new Japanese identity in the wake of the atomic catastrophe, the subsequent defeat and occupation of Japan. Hosoe met Hijikata the year prior to Navel and ABomb. In 195