Nagisa Ōshima

Directing 19 credits

Born

Mar 31, 1932

Died

Jan 15, 2013 (80 years old)

Place of birth

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.

Nagisa Ōshima

Biography

Movies (19)

ΦIDEA

Death by Hanging

Yakuza Graveyard

100 Years of Japanese Cinema

Level Five

Scenes by the Sea: Takeshi Kitano

Cinématon

Devotion: A Film About Ogawa Productions

What's a Director?

The Strange Case of Yukio Mishima

Akira Kurosawa: My Life in Cinema

A Life of Mao

Yokoi and His Twenty-Eight Years of Secret Life on Guam

Rahman: Father of Bengal

The Man Who Left His Soul on Film

Kyoto, My Mother's Place

The Oshima Gang

The Oshima Gang

As... (77)

In the Realm of the Senses

In the Realm of the Senses

Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence

Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence

Empire of Passion

Empire of Passion

Taboo

Taboo

The Dawn of Asia

Japanese Summer: Double Suicide

Japanese Summer: Double Suicide

Death by Hanging