Person
Nagisa Ōshima
Directing
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- Mar 31, 1932
- Died
- Jan 15, 2013
- From
- Okayama, Japan
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.
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Death by Hanging
Yakuza Graveyard
Level Five
100 Years of Japanese Cinema
Cinématon
The Strange Case of Yukio Mishima
Akira Kurosawa: My Life in Cinema
Kyoto, My Mother's Place
Scenes by the Sea: Takeshi Kitano
BeRLiN
A Life of Mao
Devotion: A Film About Ogawa Productions
Rahman: Father of Bengal
Yokoi and His Twenty-Eight Years of Secret Life on Guam
De droomproducenten
What's a Director?
A Visit to Ogawa Productions
The Oshima Gang