Nagisa Ōshima
Directing
Born March 31, 1932 in Okayama, Japan
Nagisa Ōshima (大島 渚, Ōshima Nagisa; 31 March 1932 – 15 January 2013) was a Japanese filmmaker, writer, and left-wing activist best known for his fiction feature films, of which he directed 23 in a career spanning from 1959 to 1999. He is often regarded as one of the greatest Japanese directors of all time, and as one of the most important figures of the Japanese New Wave, alongside Shōhei Imamura. His filmmaking style bold, innovative and provocative, common themes include youthful rebellion, class and racial discrimination, and taboo sexuality.
Filmography
Short Cuts : In the Realm of the Senses
The Oshima Gang
What's a Director?
Devotion: A Film About Ogawa Productions
Himself
Scenes by the Sea: Takeshi Kitano
Self
Taboo
Level Five
Self
100 Years of Japanese Cinema
Self - Narrator (voice)
Akira Kurosawa: My Life in Cinema
Self
Kyoto, My Mother's Place
Himself
ΦIDEA
Max My Love
The Strange Case of Yukio Mishima
Self
De droomproducenten
Self
The Oshima Gang
Self
Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence
The Man Who Left His Soul on Film
A Visit to Ogawa Productions
Himself
Cinématon
N°806
Empire of Passion
Yokoi and His Twenty-Eight Years of Secret Life on Guam
Self - Interviewer
Yakuza Graveyard
Chief Omura
In the Realm of the Senses
A Life of Mao
Dear Summer Sister
The Giants
The Ceremony
The Man Who Left His Will on Film
Boy
Mao Tse-Tung and the Cultural Revolution
Diary of a Shinjuku Thief
When Twilight Draws Near
Band of Ninja Pilot
The Greater East Asian War
Three Resurrected Drunkards
Death by Hanging
Narrator (voice)
Japanese Summer: Double Suicide
Sing a Song of Sex
Band of Ninja
Violence at Noon
Diary of Yunbogi
Pleasures of the Flesh
The Dawn of Asia
A Rebel's Fortress
Watashi-wa beretto
The Forgotten Imperial Army
The Christian Revolt
The Catch
Night and Fog in Japan
The Sun's Burial
Cruel Story of Youth
Street of Love and Hope
Donto ikōze
Tomorrow's Sun