Cultural Writing. Asian Studies. Photography. OUTCAST SAMURAI is a visual documentary of Japan's real dance avant-garde: the contemporary artists who are using their bodies to wage a creative revolution. Through the other-worldly movements of the experimental stage, these dancers are researching new possibilities for the body, methods for liberating gesture from the rigid constraints of the most choreographed culture on earth. With over fifty color photographs and an illuminating narrative, the book evokes a fever hallucination of movement, suturing the wound between past and future, East and West, art and necessity.