Nagisa Ōshima
Date of birth: 1932-03-31
Place of birth: Okayama, Japan
Known for: Directing
Also known as: 大島 渚, Nagisa Ooshima, Нагиса Осима, Nagisa Ôshima
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.
Movie Credits
What's a Director?
2006-11-04
Works commemorating the 70th anniversary of the founding of Japan mapping Supervision Association
Yakuza Graveyard
1976-10-30
A police investigator cracks down on yakuza business, but once he realizes the police are in negotia
Death by Hanging
1968-02-02
A Korean man is sentenced to death in Japan but somehow survives his execution, sending the authorit
Kyoto, My Mother's Place
1991-09-03
Story of Kyoto: its history, culture, as well as the role it has played in the director's life and t
A Life of Mao
1976-09-12
A Visit to Ogawa Productions
1981-01-01
A Visit to Ogawa Productions offers a rare insight into the social and cinematic philosophy of one o
The Oshima Gang
2010-03-13
Cinématon
1978-12-20
Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest
Devotion: A Film About Ogawa Productions
2002-01-26
Devotion investigates the extremely complex and heirarchical relationships among a committed group o
Akira Kurosawa: My Life in Cinema
1993-01-01
Nagisa Oshima interviews Akira Kurosawa, leading him to share his thoughts about filmmaking, his lif
The Strange Case of Yukio Mishima
1985-12-03
A BBC television documentary on the life of Yukio Mishima that highlights the many known major aspec
100 Years of Japanese Cinema
1995-09-01
The story of the first century of Japanese cinema from the point of view of the controversial Japane
The Oshima Gang
1983-12-31
Documentary about the making of Nagisa Oshima's 1983 film MERRY CHRISTMAS MR. LAWRENCE.
The Man Who Left His Soul on Film
1983-02-02
Documentary about Nagisa Oshima. It includes interviews with Oshima, Donald Richie, Roger Pulvers a
Rahman: Father of Bengal
1973-01-06
Documentary about the politician Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
Level Five
1997-02-19
Laura, a French programmer, inherits the task of creating a game about the World War II Battle of Ok
Scenes by the Sea: Takeshi Kitano
2000-05-05
First major English-language documentary profile of the cult Japanese actor/director, Takeshi Kitano
ΦIDEA
1988-07-18
Documentary featuring Nagisa Ōshima and Masuaki Kiyota, a Uri Geller-esque psychic medium