Directing
Nagisa Ōshima
Born March 31, 1932 Okayama, Japan
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.
Directed Films
6.6
Taboo
1999·Drama
5.9
100 Years of Japanese Cinema
1995·Documentary
8.0
Kyoto, My Mother's Place
1991·Documentary
5.8
Max My Love
1986·Comedy
7.3
Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence
1983·Drama
6.9
Empire of Passion
1978·Drama
8.0
Yokoi and His Twenty-Eight Years of Secret Life on Guam
1977·Documentary
6.6
In the Realm of the Senses
1976·Drama
8.0
A Life of Mao
1976·Documentary
5.1
Dear Summer Sister
1972·Drama
10.0
The Giants
1972·Documentary
6.8
The Ceremony
1971·Drama
5.8
The Man Who Left His Will on Film
1970·Drama
7.2
Boy
1969·Crime
8.0
Mao Tse-Tung and the Cultural Revolution
1969·Documentary
4.8
Diary of a Shinjuku Thief
1969·Drama
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Band of Ninja Pilot
1969·Animation
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The Greater East Asian War
1968·Documentary
5.6
Three Resurrected Drunkards
1968·Drama
7.4
Death by Hanging
1968·Comedy
5.7
Japanese Summer: Double Suicide
1967·Crime
5.8
Sing a Song of Sex
1967·Drama
4.8
Band of Ninja
1967·Animation
6.2
Violence at Noon
1966·Drama
Also Appeared In
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The Oshima Gang
2010·Drama
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What's a Director?
2006·Drama
10.0
Devotion: A Film About Ogawa Productions
2002·Documentary
8.0
Scenes by the Sea: Takeshi Kitano
2000·Documentary
6.1
Level Five
1997·Documentary
5.9
100 Years of Japanese Cinema
1995·Documentary
7.7
Akira Kurosawa: My Life in Cinema
1993·Documentary
8.0
Kyoto, My Mother's Place
1991·Documentary
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ΦIDEA
1988·Documentary
3.5
The Strange Case of Yukio Mishima
1985·Documentary
10.0
De droomproducenten
1984·Documentary
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The Oshima Gang
1983·Documentary