Nagisa Ōshima
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.
40 directing credits · 20 acting credits
Directing · 40
In the Realm of the Senses
1976
Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence
1983
Empire of Passion
1978
Taboo
1999
Japanese Summer: Double Suicide
1967
Death by Hanging
1968
Sing a Song of Sex
1967
Cruel Story of Youth
1960
The Christian Revolt
1962
The Sun's Burial
1960
Boy
1969
Pleasures of the Flesh
1965
The Ceremony
1971
Diary of a Shinjuku Thief
1969
Night and Fog in Japan
1960
The Catch
1961
Tomorrow's Sun
1959
Violence at Noon
1966
The Man Who Left His Will on Film
1970
Band of Ninja
1967
Three Resurrected Drunkards
1968
Dear Summer Sister
1972
The Dawn of Asia
1964
Street of Love and Hope
1959
Max My Love
1986
100 Years of Japanese Cinema
1995
Rahman: Father of Bengal
1973
Watashi-wa beretto
1964
A Rebel's Fortress
1964
Diary of Yunbogi
1965
The Greater East Asian War
1968
A Life of Mao
1976
Kyoto, My Mother's Place
1991
The Forgotten Imperial Army
1963
Mao Tse-Tung and the Cultural Revolution
1969
Band of Ninja Pilot
1969
The Giants
1972
Yokoi and His Twenty-Eight Years of Secret Life on Guam
1977
ジョイ！バングラ
1972
The Journey of the Blind Musicians
1972
Acting · 20
Death by Hanging
1968
Scenes by the Sea: Takeshi Kitano
2000
Yakuza Graveyard
1976
Devotion: A Film About Ogawa Productions
2002
The Strange Case of Yukio Mishima
1985
Cinématon
1978
The Man Who Left His Soul on Film
1983
What's a Director?
2006
100 Years of Japanese Cinema
1995
Akira Kurosawa: My Life in Cinema
1993
Rahman: Father of Bengal
1973
The Oshima Gang
2010
De droomproducenten
1984
A Visit to Ogawa Productions
1981
A Life of Mao
1976
The Oshima Gang
1983
Level Five
1997
Kyoto, My Mother's Place
1991
ΦIDEA
1988
Yokoi and His Twenty-Eight Years of Secret Life on Guam
1977