Nagisa Ōshima
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- March 31, 1932
- Died
- January 15, 2013 (aged 80)
- Birthplace
- Okayama, Japan
Biography
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.
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Filmography
Taboo
Movie · Director
100 Years of Japanese Cinema
Movie · Director
Kyoto, My Mother's Place
Movie · Director
Max My Love
Movie · Director
Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence
Movie · Director
Empire of Passion
Movie · Director
Yokoi and His Twenty-Eight Years of Secret Life on Guam
Movie · Director
In the Realm of the Senses
Movie · Director
A Life of Mao
Movie · Director
Rahman: Father of Bengal
Movie · Director
Dear Summer Sister
Movie · Director
The Journey of the Blind Musicians
Movie · Director
The Giants
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ジョイ！バングラ
Movie · Director
The Ceremony
Movie · Director
The Man Who Left His Will on Film
Movie · Director
Mao Tse-Tung and the Cultural Revolution
Movie · Director
Boy
Movie · Director
Diary of a Shinjuku Thief
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Band of Ninja Pilot
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Death by Hanging
Movie · Director
Three Resurrected Drunkards
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The Greater East Asian War
Movie · Director
Japanese Summer: Double Suicide
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Sing a Song of Sex
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Band of Ninja
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Violence at Noon
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Pleasures of the Flesh
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Diary of Yunbogi
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A Rebel's Fortress
Movie · Director
Watashi-wa beretto
Movie · Director
The Dawn of Asia
TV · Director · 13 eps
The Forgotten Imperial Army
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Chiisana bōken ryokō
Movie · Director
The Christian Revolt
Movie · Director
The Catch
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Cruel Story of Youth
Movie · Director
Night and Fog in Japan
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The Sun's Burial
Movie · Director
A Town of Love and Hope
Movie · Director
Tomorrow's Sun
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