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Nagisa Ōshima

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.

Et billede af Nagisa Ōshima

Directing

1959

[ ] Street of Love and Hope (Director)
[ ] Tomorrow's Sun (Director)

1960

[ ] Cruel Story of Youth (Director)
[ ] Night and Fog in Japan (Director)
[ ] The Sun's Burial (Director)

1961

[ ] The Catch (Director)

1962

[ ] The Christian Revolt (Director)

1963

[ ] The Forgotten Imperial Army (Director)

1964

[ ] A Rebel's Fortress (Director)
[ ] My Bellett (Director)

1965

[ ] Pleasures of the Flesh (Director)
[ ] Diary of Yunbogi (Director)

1966

[ ] Violence at Noon (Director)

1967

[ ] Japanese Summer: Double Suicide (Director)
[ ] Sing a Song of Sex (Director)
[ ] Band of Ninja (Director)

1968

[ ] Death by Hanging (Director)
[ ] Three Resurrected Drunkards (Director)
[ ] The Greater East Asian War (Director)

1969

[ ] Mao Tse-Tung and the Cultural Revolution (Director)
[ ] Boy (Director)
[ ] Diary of a Shinjuku Thief (Director)
[ ] Band of Ninja Pilot (Director)

1970

[ ] The Man Who Left His Will on Film (Director)

1971

[ ] The Ceremony (Director)

1972

[ ] Dear Summer Sister (Director)
[ ] The Journey of the Blind Musicians (Director)
[ ] The Giants (Director)
[ ] ジョイ！バングラ (Director)

1973

[ ] Rahman: Father of Bengal (Director)

1976

[ W ] In the Realm of the Senses (Director)
[ ] A Life of Mao (Director)

1977

[ ] Yokoi and His Twenty-Eight Years of Secret Life on Guam (Director)

1978

[ ] Empire of Passion (Director)

1983

[ W ] Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (Director)

1986

[ ] Max My Love (Director)

1991

[ ] Kyoto, My Mother's Place (Director)

1995

[ ] 100 Years of Japanese Cinema (Director)

1999

[ ] Taboo (Director)

Writing

1959

[ ] Street of Love and Hope (Writer)
[ ] Tomorrow's Sun (Writer)
[ ] Donto ikōze (Screenplay)

1960

[ ] Night and Fog in Japan (Writer)
[ ] The Sun's Burial (Screenplay)
[ ] Cruel Story of Youth (Screenplay)

1962

[ ] The Christian Revolt (Writer)

1963

[ ] The Forgotten Imperial Army (Screenplay)

1964

[ ] A Rebel's Fortress (Screenplay)
[ ] My Bellett (Screenplay)

1965

[ ] Pleasures of the Flesh (Screenplay)
[ ] Diary of Yunbogi (Writer)

1967

[ ] Japanese Summer: Double Suicide (Writer)
[ ] Sing a Song of Sex (Writer)
[ ] Band of Ninja (Screenplay)

1968

[ ] Three Resurrected Drunkards (Writer)
[ ] Death by Hanging (Screenplay)
[ ] The Greater East Asian War (Writer)

1969

[ ] When Twilight Draws Near (Writer)
[ ] Diary of a Shinjuku Thief (Writer)
[ ] Mao Tse-Tung and the Cultural Revolution (Writer)

1970

[ ] The Man Who Left His Will on Film (Story)

1971

[ ] The Ceremony (Screenplay)

1972

[ ] Dear Summer Sister (Writer)

1976

[ ] A Life of Mao (Writer)
[ W ] In the Realm of the Senses (Writer)

1978

[ ] Empire of Passion (Writer)

1983

[ W ] Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (Screenplay)

1986

[ ] Max My Love (Writer)

1991

[ ] Kyoto, My Mother's Place (Writer)

1995

[ ] 100 Years of Japanese Cinema (Writer)

1999

[ ] Taboo (Screenplay)

2016

[ ] Short Cuts : In the Realm of the Senses (Original Film Writer)

Editing

1969

[ ] Diary of a Shinjuku Thief (Editor)

Production

1965

[ ] Diary of Yunbogi (Producer)

1967

[ ] Band of Ninja (Producer)

1968

[ ] Death by Hanging (Producer)

Actor

1968

[ ] Death by Hanging (Narrator (voice))

1973

[ ] Rahman: Father of Bengal (Interviewer)

1976

[ ] Yakuza Graveyard (Chief Omura)
[ ] A Life of Mao (????)

1977

[ ] Yokoi and His Twenty-Eight Years of Secret Life on Guam (Self - Interviewer)

1978

[ ] Cinématon (N°806)

1981

[ ] A Visit to Ogawa Productions (Himself)

1983

[ ] The Oshima Gang (Self)
[ ] The Man Who Left His Soul on Film (????)

1985

[ ] The Strange Case of Yukio Mishima (Self)

1988

[ ] ΦIDEA (????)

1991

[ ] Kyoto, My Mother's Place (Himself)

1993

[ ] Akira Kurosawa: My Life in Cinema (Self)

1995

[ ] 100 Years of Japanese Cinema (Self - Narrator (voice))

1997

[ ] Level Five (Self)

2000

[ ] Scenes by the Sea: Takeshi Kitano (????)

2002

[ ] Devotion: A Film About Ogawa Productions (Himself)

2006

[ ] What's a Director? (????)

2010

[ ] The Oshima Gang (????)