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Nagisa Ōshima (大島 渚, Ōshima Nagisa, March 31, 1932 – January 15, 2013) was a Japanese film director and screenwriter. One of the foremost directors within the Japanese New Wave , his films include In the Realm of the Senses (1976), a sexually explicit film set in 1930s Japan, and Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (1983), about ...
Nagisa Ôshima. Director: Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence. Nagisa Oshima's career extends from the initiation of the "Nuberu bagu" (New Wave) movement in Japanese cinema in the late 1950s and early 1960s, to the contemporary use of cinema and television to express paradoxes in modern society.
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Jan 16, 2013 · Nagisa Oshima, the iconoclastic filmmaker who challenged and subverted the pieties of Japanese society and the conventions of Japanese cinema and who gained international notoriety in 1976 for...
An unflinchingly iconoclastic and ceaselessly inventive filmmaker, Nagisa Oshima (1932- ) has scorched an indelible path across postwar Japanese cinema. Oshima is one of Japan’s original outlaw masters – a rebellious and instinctively anti-establishment ...
Director Nagisa Oshima often quoted the phrase "the republic of the cinema" as if film was a country and he one of its citizens. He combined the very best stalwart Japanese qualities...
Sep 11, 2013 · How a studio trained director quit the system to go independent and become one of the most influential filmmakers in Japanese history. NAGISA Oshima, one of Japan’s most influential and controversial film directors, died January 15 in a hospital near Tokyo at the age of 80.
Feb 5, 2024 · Nagisa Oshima was a pioneering Japanese filmmaker and a founding figure of the Japanese New Wave. This essay is excerpted from his collection of writings “Cinema, Censorship, and the State,” published in 1993. Oshima died in 2013.
