Director
Nagisa Ōshima
94 years · Okayama, Japan · 54 films
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.
Best known for
In the Realm of the Senses
1976 · Director, Writer
On Criterion Channel
Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence
1983 · Director, Screenplay
On Plex
Empire of Passion
1978 · Director, Writer
On Criterion Channel
Taboo
1999 · Director, Screenplay
Death by Hanging
1968 · Narrator (voice), Director
On Criterion Channel
Cruel Story of Youth
1960 · Director, Screenplay
Filmography 54
The Oshima Gang
2010 · Actor
What's a Director?
2006 · Actor
Devotion: A Film About Ogawa Productions
2002 · Himself
Scenes by the Sea: Takeshi Kitano
2000 · Self
Taboo
1999 · Director, Screenplay
Level Five
1997 · Self
BeRLiN
1995 · Actor
100 Years of Japanese Cinema
1995 · Self - Narrator (voice), Director
Akira Kurosawa: My Life in Cinema
1993 · Self
Kyoto, My Mother's Place
1991 · Himself, Director
ΦIDEA
1988 · Actor
Max My Love
1986 · Director, Writer
The Strange Case of Yukio Mishima
1985 · Self
De droomproducenten
1984 · Self
The Oshima Gang
1983 · Self
Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence
1983 · Director, Screenplay
On Plex
The Man Who Left His Soul on Film
1983 · Actor
A Visit to Ogawa Productions
1981 · Himself
Cinématon
1978 · N°806
Empire of Passion
1978 · Director, Writer
On Criterion Channel
Yokoi and His Twenty-Eight Years of Secret Life on Guam
1977 · Self - Interviewer, Director
Yakuza Graveyard
1976 · Chief Omura
In the Realm of the Senses
1976 · Director, Writer
On Criterion Channel
A Life of Mao
1976 · Actor, Director