Known For
Directing
Born
Mar 31, 1932
Died
Jan 15, 2013
Place of Birth
Okayama, Japan
Credits
57 titles
Nagisa Ōshima
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.
Known For
Filmography
Short Cuts : In the Realm of the Senses
Original Film Writer
The Oshima Gang
What's a Director?
Devotion: A Film About Ogawa Productions
Himself
Scenes by the Sea: Takeshi Kitano
Self
Taboo
Director
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
Director
The Strange Case of Yukio Mishima
Self
De droomproducenten
Self
The Oshima Gang
Self
Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence
Director
The Man Who Left His Soul on Film
A Visit to Ogawa Productions
Himself
Cinématon
N°806
Empire of Passion
Director
Yokoi and His Twenty-Eight Years of Secret Life on Guam
Self - Interviewer
Yakuza Graveyard
Chief Omura
In the Realm of the Senses
Director
A Life of Mao
Rahman: Father of Bengal
Interviewer
The Journey of the Blind Musicians
Director
Dear Summer Sister
Director
ジョイ！バングラ
Director
The Giants
Director
The Ceremony
Director
The Man Who Left His Will on Film
Director
Boy
Director
Mao Tse-Tung and the Cultural Revolution
Director
Diary of a Shinjuku Thief
Editor
When Twilight Draws Near
Writer
Band of Ninja Pilot
Director
The Greater East Asian War
Director
Three Resurrected Drunkards
Writer
Death by Hanging
Narrator (voice)
Japanese Summer: Double Suicide
Writer
Sing a Song of Sex
Director
Band of Ninja
Screenplay
Violence at Noon
Director
Diary of Yunbogi
Director
Pleasures of the Flesh
Director
The Dawn of Asia
Director
A Rebel's Fortress
Screenplay
Watashi-wa beretto
Director
The Forgotten Imperial Army
Director
The Christian Revolt
Writer