Nagisa Ōshima
Directing • Born 1932-03-31 – Died 2013-01-15
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.
Filmography
19 credits
What's a Director?
Movie • 2006
Yakuza Graveyard
Movie • 1976
Chief Omura
Death by Hanging
Movie • 1968
Narrator (voice)
Kyoto, My Mother's Place
Movie • 1991
Himself
A Life of Mao
Movie • 1976
A Visit to Ogawa Productions
Movie • 1981
Himself
The Oshima Gang
Movie • 2010
Cinématon
Movie • 1978
N°806
Devotion: A Film About Ogawa Productions
Movie • 2002
Himself
Akira Kurosawa: My Life in Cinema
Movie • 1993
Self
The Strange Case of Yukio Mishima
Movie • 1985
Self
100 Years of Japanese Cinema
Movie • 1995
Self - Narrator (voice)
The Oshima Gang
Movie • 1983
Self
The Man Who Left His Soul on Film
Movie • 1983
Rahman: Father of Bengal
Movie • 1973
Interviewer
Level Five
Movie • 1997
Self
Scenes by the Sea: Takeshi Kitano
Movie • 2000
ΦIDEA
Movie • 1988
Yokoi and His Twenty-Eight Years of Secret Life on Guam
Movie • 1977
Self - Interviewer