Nagisa Ōshima
Directing
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.
As actor 20
Death by Hanging
1968
Yakuza Graveyard
1976
Scenes by the Sea: Takeshi Kitano
2000
Cinématon
1978
Devotion: A Film About Ogawa Productions
2002
What's a Director?
2006
Level Five
1997
The Strange Case of Yukio Mishima
1985
Akira Kurosawa: My Life in Cinema
1993
De droomproducenten
1984
100 Years of Japanese Cinema
1995
ΦIDEA
1988
Kyoto, My Mother's Place
1991
The Oshima Gang
2010
The Man Who Left His Soul on Film
1983
The Oshima Gang
1983
Yokoi and His Twenty-Eight Years of Secret Life on Guam
1977
Rahman: Father of Bengal
1973
A Visit to Ogawa Productions
1981
A Life of Mao
1976
On the crew 43
In the Realm of the Senses
1976
The Dawn of Asia
1964
Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence
1983
Empire of Passion
1978
Taboo
1999
The Sun's Burial
1960
Cruel Story of Youth
1960
Diary of a Shinjuku Thief
1969
Three Resurrected Drunkards
1968
Max My Love
1986
Mao Tse-Tung and the Cultural Revolution
1969
Death by Hanging
1968
The Ceremony
1971
Donto ikōze
1959
Sing a Song of Sex
1967
The Forgotten Imperial Army
1963
The Man Who Left His Will on Film
1970
The Catch
1961
Violence at Noon
1966
Band of Ninja
1967
Japanese Summer: Double Suicide
1967
Night and Fog in Japan
1960
Boy
1969
Dear Summer Sister
1972
Pleasures of the Flesh
1965
Street of Love and Hope
1959
When Twilight Draws Near
1969
Diary of Yunbogi
1965
The Christian Revolt
1962
Tomorrow's Sun
1959
100 Years of Japanese Cinema
1995
Watashi-wa beretto
1964
Kyoto, My Mother's Place
1991
A Rebel's Fortress
1964
Yokoi and His Twenty-Eight Years of Secret Life on Guam
1977
Rahman: Father of Bengal
1973
ジョイ！バングラ
1972
The Giants
1972
The Greater East Asian War
1968
The Journey of the Blind Musicians
1972
Band of Ninja Pilot
1969
A Life of Mao
1976
Short Cuts : In the Realm of the Senses
2016