Marta Balaga “People don’t really think about striptease these days,” says director Yoichiro Okutani, “it’s seen as old-fashioned.
They don’t care. Normally, you wouldn’t even go there.” So with his debut film “Odoriko,” which takes its name from the Japanese word for exotic dancers and has its premiere in IDFA’s Feature-Length Documentary Competition, Okutani’s has decided to take us there: “Odoriko” opens a window into the twilight world of Japan’s few remaining strip clubs. “In my film you see a very old-fashioned strip club,” says Okutani, “but the strippers are young.
Read more on variety.com