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Kappa (1986)

ALL 06/17/1986 (en) Documentary, Animation, Drama, Comedy 26 Min
  • Release
    06/17/1986
  • Production
    KYO-DAI
  • Rotten tomato
    0%
  • Original title
    Kappa
  • Original language
    en
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
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Overview

Deconstructing the myth of Oedipus within the framework of an ancient Japanese folk story, the Yonemotos craft a highly charged discourse of loss and desire. Quoting from Bunuel, Freud, pop media and art, they place the symbology of Western psychosexual analytical theory into a cross-cultural context, juxtaposing the Oedipal and Kappa myths in a delirious collusion of form and content. The Kappa, a malevolent Japanese water imp, is played with eerie intensity by artist Mike Kelley; actress Mary Woronov plays Jocasta as a vamp from a Hollywood exploitation film. Steeped in perversions and violent longings, both the Kappa and Oedipus legends are presented in highly stylized, purposefully "degraded" forms, reflecting their media-exploitative cultural contexts. In this ironic yet oddly poignant essay of psychosexual compulsion and catharsis, the Yonemotos demonstrate that even in debased forms, cultural archetypes hold the power to move and manipulate.

  2. Story

  3. Editor



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  1. Mike Kelley

    The Kappa

  2. Mary Woronov

    Jocasta

  3. Keye Luke

    Narrator (voice)

  4. Edward Ruscha

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Casts : 4 , Crews : 11

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Kappa (1986) 26 Min

ALL 06/17/1986 (en)
Documentary, Animation, Drama, Comedy
  • Release 06/17/1986
  • Production
    KYO-DAI
  • Original title Kappa
  • en
  • Revenue0.00

Overview

Deconstructing the myth of Oedipus within the framework of an ancient Japanese folk story, the Yonemotos craft a highly charged discourse of loss and desire. Quoting from Bunuel, Freud, pop media and art, they place the symbology of Western psychosexual analytical theory into a cross-cultural context, juxtaposing the Oedipal and Kappa myths in a delirious collusion of form and content. The Kappa, a malevolent Japanese water imp, is played with eerie intensity by artist Mike Kelley; actress Mary Woronov plays Jocasta as a vamp from a Hollywood exploitation film. Steeped in perversions and violent longings, both the Kappa and Oedipus legends are presented in highly stylized, purposefully "degraded" forms, reflecting their media-exploitative cultural contexts. In this ironic yet oddly poignant essay of psychosexual compulsion and catharsis, the Yonemotos demonstrate that even in debased forms, cultural archetypes hold the power to move and manipulate.

  1. Bruce Yonemoto, Norman Yonemoto

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Editor

  4. Bruce Yonemoto, Norman Yonemoto

    Producer



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