Nagisa Ōshima
Known for: Directing
Born: March 30, 1932 in Okayama, Japan - Died: January 14, 2013
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
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What's a Director?
Yakuza Graveyard
Chief Omura
Death by Hanging
Narrator (voice)
Kyoto, My Mother's Place
Himself
A Life of Mao
A Visit to Ogawa Productions
Himself
The Oshima Gang
Cinématon
N°806
Devotion: A Film About Ogawa Productions
Himself
Akira Kurosawa: My Life in Cinema
Self
The Strange Case of Yukio Mishima
Self
100 Years of Japanese Cinema
Self - Narrator (voice)
The Oshima Gang
Self
The Man Who Left His Soul on Film
Rahman: Father of Bengal
Interviewer
Level Five
Self
Scenes by the Sea: Takeshi Kitano
ΦIDEA
Yokoi and His Twenty-Eight Years of Secret Life on Guam
Self - Interviewer
Mao Tse-Tung and the Cultural Revolution
Director
Taboo
Director
In the Realm of the Senses
Director
Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence
Screenplay
Violence at Noon
Director