Nagisa Ōshima
Nagisa Ōshima was a director, born 1932, died 2013.
Nagisa Ōshima was a Japanese film director, writer, and left-wing activist who is best known for his fiction films, of which he directed 23 features in a career spanning from 1959 to 1999. He is 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 film style was bold, innovative and provocative. Common themes in his work include youthful rebellion, class and racial discrimination and taboo sexuality.
Movies (21)
- Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (1983)
- Taboo (1999)
- Japanese Summer: Double Suicide (1967)
- Empire of Passion (1978)
- Cruel Story of Youth (1960)
- Diary of a Shinjuku Thief (1969)
- Yakuza Graveyard (1976)
- Death by Hanging (1968)
- Death by Hanging (1968)
- Sing a Song of Sex (1967)
- Night and Fog in Japan (1960)
- The Sun's Burial (1960)
- Band of Ninja (1967)
- The Ceremony (1971)
- The Catch (1961)
- Pleasures of the Flesh (1965)
- Violence at Noon (1966)
- Dear Summer Sister (1972)
- Tomorrow's Sun (1959)
- Max My Love (1986)
- Three Resurrected Drunkards (1968)