7.4
7.4
Death by Hanging
1968
Director
Nagisa Ōshima
Also known as: Nagisa Oshima
Directing
Nationality:Japan
Education:Kyoto University
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CommunityBiographyvia wikipedia
Nagisa Ōshima (大島 渚, Ōshima Nagisa; March 31, 1932 – January 15, 2013) was a Japanese film director, writer, and left-wing activist who is best known for his fiction films, of which he directed 23 features in a career spanning from 1959 to 1999. He is regarded as one of the greatest Japanese directors of all time, and as one of the most important figures of the Japanese New Wave (Nūberu bāgu), alongside Shōhei Imamura. His film style was bold, innovative and provocative. Common themes in his work include youthful rebellion, class and racial discrimination and taboo sexuality. His first major film was his second feature, Cruel Story of Youth (1960), one of the first Japanese New Wave films, a youth-oriented film with an earnest portrayal of the sexual lives and criminal activities of its young protagonists. And he came to greater international renown after Death By Hanging (1968), a film on the theme of capital punishment and anti-Korean sentiment, was shown at the Cannes Film Festival in 1968. His most controversial film is In the Realm of the Senses (1976), a sexually explicit film set in 1930s Japan.
Filmography (53 movies)
7.3
7.3
Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence
1983
Director
7.2
7.2
Boy
1969
Director
6.9
6.9
Empire of Passion
1978
Writer
6.9
6.9
The Ceremony
1971
Director
6.7
6.7
Yakuza Graveyard
1976
as Chief Omura
6.6
6.6
Street of Love and Hope
1959
Writer
6.6
6.6
In the Realm of the Senses
1976
Writer
6.6
6.6
Taboo
1999
Screenplay
6.5
6.5
Cruel Story of Youth
1960
Screenplay
6.5
6.5
Akira Kurosawa: My Life in Cinema
1993
as Self
6.5
6.5
Diary of Yunbogi
1965
Director
6.5
6.5
The Sun's Burial
1960
Director
6.4
6.4
When Twilight Draws Near
1969
Writer
6.4
6.4
Night and Fog in Japan
1960
Director
6.3
6.3
The Catch
1961
Director
6.2
6.2
The Christian Revolt
1962
Director
6.2
6.2
Violence at Noon
1966
Director
6.1
6.1
Max My Love
1986
Writer
6.1
6.1
Tomorrow's Sun
1959
Director
6.0
6.0
Level Five
1997
as Self
6.0
6.0
Kyoto, My Mother's Place
1991
Director
6.0
6.0
My Bellett
1964
Director
6.0
6.0
The Forgotten Imperial Army
1963
Director
5.8
5.8
100 Years of Japanese Cinema
1995
Director
5.7
5.7
The Man Who Left His Will on Film
1970
Director
5.6
5.6
Pleasures of the Flesh
1965
Screenplay
5.6
5.6
Sing a Song of Sex
1967
Writer
5.6
5.6
Three Resurrected Drunkards
1968
Writer
5.5
5.5
Japanese Summer: Double Suicide
1967
Writer
4.6
4.6
Band of Ninja
1967
Director
4.5
4.5
Diary of a Shinjuku Thief
1969
Director
3.8
3.8
Dear Summer Sister
1972
Director
3.5
3.5
The Strange Case of Yukio Mishima
1985
as Self
ΦIDEA
1988
What's a Director?
2006
A Life of Mao
1976
Writer
The Oshima Gang
2010
Yokoi and His Twenty-Eight Years of Secret Life on Guam
1977
Director
A Visit to Ogawa Productions
1981
as Himself
Devotion: A Film About Ogawa Productions
2002
as Himself
The Oshima Gang
1983
as Self
The Man Who Left His Soul on Film
1983
Rahman: Father of Bengal
1973
Director
Scenes by the Sea: Takeshi Kitano
2000
The Giants
1972
Director
Mao Tse-Tung and the Cultural Revolution
1969
Writer
A Rebel's Fortress
1964
Screenplay
The Journey of the Blind Musicians
1972
Director
Band of Ninja Pilot
1969
Director
The Greater East Asian War
1968
Writer
ジョイ！バングラ
1972
Director
Donto ikōze
1959
Screenplay
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