Nagisa Ōshima
Directing Born: 1932-03-31 Okayama, Japan
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.
Movies
Level Five
Death by Hanging
100 Years of Japanese Cinema
Yakuza Graveyard
What's a Director?
The Man Who Left His Soul on Film
The Strange Case of Yukio Mishima
Rahman: Father of Bengal
The Oshima Gang
Kyoto, My Mother's Place
Yokoi and His Twenty-Eight Years of Secret Life on Guam
Scenes by the Sea: Takeshi Kitano
The Oshima Gang
A Visit to Ogawa Productions
A Life of Mao
Akira Kurosawa: My Life in Cinema
Cinématon
ΦIDEA
Devotion: A Film About Ogawa Productions