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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 World War ...
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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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 ...
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.
- Empire of Passion (1978) “Empire of Passion” is a 1978 Japanese film directed by Nagisa Oshima. The film tells the story of a passionate love affair between a married woman and a young man, and the consequences that ensue from their actions.
- Death by Hanging (1968) “Death by Hanging” is a Japanese film directed by Nagisa Oshima and released in 1968. The film is a satirical and politically charged exploration of Japanese society, focusing on the controversial issue of capital punishment.
- The Ceremony (1971) “The Ceremony” is a novel by Japanese author and Nobel laureate, Yukio Mishima. It was first published in Japanese in 1970 under the title “Gogo no Eiko” (Afternoon of the Noble).
- In the Realm of the Senses (1976) “In the Realm of the Senses” is a Japanese erotic drama film directed by Nagisa Oshima and released in 1976. The film is loosely based on the true story of Sada Abe, a former geisha who became notorious for her affair with and murder of her employer in 1936.
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...
Apr 22, 2004 · Japanese leftists, fearing a return to authoritarianism and militarism, stepped up their demands for greater freedom. At the time of the security pact signing, Oshima was an officer in Kyoto University’s left-wing student association, and led the student body in a series of protests.
