Directing
Nagisa Ōshima
Also Known As: 大島 渚, Nagisa Ooshima, Нагиса Осима
Birth Date
March 31, 1932
Death Date
January 15, 2013
(passed away at 80)
Place of Birth
Okayama, Japan
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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.
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Death by Hanging
Narrator (voice)
1968
Cinématon
N°806
1978
Scenes by the Sea: Takeshi Kitano
Self
2000
The Man Who Left His Soul on Film
1983
Yakuza Graveyard
Chief Omura
1976
The Strange Case of Yukio Mishima
Self
1985
Level Five
Self
1997
BeRLiN
1995
What's a Director?
2006
The Oshima Gang
Self
1983
100 Years of Japanese Cinema
Self - Narrator (voice)
1995
De droomproducenten
Self
1984
Devotion: A Film About Ogawa Productions
Himself
2002
ΦIDEA
1988
Akira Kurosawa: My Life in Cinema
Self
1993
The Oshima Gang
2010
Rahman: Father of Bengal
Interviewer
1973
Kyoto, My Mother's Place
Himself
1991
A Life of Mao
1976
A Visit to Ogawa Productions
Himself
1981