Shadow Boxing To An Extreme: Kagemu

Recently a friend, “B”, showed me a video by a Japanese performing artist, using lots of clever light and choreography. Turns out it’s actually a pretty famous act called Kagemu (カゲム) featuring a pair of men: Hanabusa Nobuyuki who designs the animation and Sakakura Katsumi who does the dance/fighting. Katsumi is 48 years old as of writing, but it’s hard to notice.

Every year in Japan just after New Year, there is a TV show which brings talent from around the world to perform, and get rated by judges in the form of how much money they would pay to have them do a show. This was Kagemu’s performance last year (2011) for that show. Ignore the :

And earlier this week, they did a new performance on the same show:

Pretty amazing to watch. It’s just “smoke and mirrors”, so to speak, but it is pretty imaginative. Enjoy and Happy Friday!

P.S. Ignore the bad English at the beginning of each clip. You see that a lot on Japanese TV, and just get used to it after a while. :p I suppose it’s no worse than some of the stupid stuff you see on American TV.