Nagisa Ōshima

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.

Known For

Yakuza Graveyard

Death by Hanging

Cinématon

Scenes by the Sea: Takeshi Kitano

What's a Director?

The Oshima Gang

The Strange Case of Yukio Mishima

Level Five

All Movies (20)

• The Oshima Gang2010
• What's a Director?2006
• Devotion: A Film About Ogawa Productions2002 · as Himself
• Scenes by the Sea: Takeshi Kitano2000 · as Self
• Level Five1997 · as Self
• 100 Years of Japanese Cinema1995 · as Self - Narrator (voice)
• Akira Kurosawa: My Life in Cinema1993 · as Self
• Kyoto, My Mother's Place1991 · as Himself
• ΦIDEA1988
• The Strange Case of Yukio Mishima1985 · as Self
• De droomproducenten1984 · as Self
• The Oshima Gang1983 · as Self
• The Man Who Left His Soul on Film1983
• A Visit to Ogawa Productions1981 · as Himself
• Cinématon1978 · as N°806
• Yokoi and His Twenty-Eight Years of Secret Life on Guam1977 · as Self - Interviewer
• Yakuza Graveyard1976 · as Chief Omura
• A Life of Mao1976
• Rahman: Father of Bengal1973 · as Interviewer
• Death by Hanging1968 · as Narrator (voice)