Nagisa Ōshima
Born: 1932-03-31 in Okayama, Japan
Died: 2013-01-15
Known For: 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.
Filmography
2016
- Short Cuts : In the Realm of the Senses ... (Original Film Writer)
2010
2006
2002
- Devotion: A Film About Ogawa Productions as Himself
2000
1999
- Taboo ... (Director)
1997
- Level Five as Self
1995
- 100 Years of Japanese Cinema as Self - Narrator (voice)
1993
1991
- Kyoto, My Mother's Place as Himself
1988
1986
- Max My Love ... (Director)
1985
1984
- De droomproducenten as Self
1983
- Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence ... (Screenplay)
- The Oshima Gang as Self
- The Man Who Left His Soul on Film
1981
- A Visit to Ogawa Productions as Himself
1978
- Empire of Passion ... (Writer)
- Cinématon as N°806
1977
- Yokoi and His Twenty-Eight Years of Secret Life on Guam as Self - Interviewer
1976
- In the Realm of the Senses ... (Director)
- Yakuza Graveyard as Chief Omura
- A Life of Mao
1973
- Rahman: Father of Bengal as Interviewer
1972
- Dear Summer Sister ... (Writer)
- The Journey of the Blind Musicians ... (Director)
- The Giants ... (Director)
- ジョイ！バングラ ... (Director)
1971
- The Ceremony ... (Director)
1970
- The Man Who Left His Will on Film ... (Director)
1969
- Boy ... (Director)
- Diary of a Shinjuku Thief ... (Editor)
- When Twilight Draws Near ... (Writer)
- Mao Tse-Tung and the Cultural Revolution ... (Director)
- Band of Ninja Pilot ... (Director)
1968
- Death by Hanging as Narrator (voice)
- Three Resurrected Drunkards ... (Writer)
- The Greater East Asian War ... (Director)
1967
- Sing a Song of Sex ... (Director)
- Japanese Summer: Double Suicide ... (Writer)
- Band of Ninja ... (Screenplay)
1966
- Violence at Noon ... (Director)
1965
- Pleasures of the Flesh ... (Director)
- Diary of Yunbogi ... (Director)
1964
- Watashi-wa beretto ... (Director)
- The Dawn of Asia ... (Director)
- A Rebel's Fortress ... (Director)
1963
- The Forgotten Imperial Army ... (Director)
1962
- Shiro Amakusa: The Christian Rebel ... (Writer)
1961
- The Catch ... (Director)
1960
- Night and Fog in Japan ... (Writer)
- Cruel Story of Youth ... (Director)
- The Sun's Burial ... (Director)
1959
- Tomorrow's Sun ... (Director)
- Street of Love and Hope ... (Writer)
- Donto ikōze ... (Screenplay)