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.

Directed

1. In the Realm of the Senses (1976) — Director
2. Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (1983) — Director
3. Empire of Passion (1978) — Director
4. Taboo (1999) — Director
5. Death by Hanging (1968) — Director
6. Cruel Story of Youth (1960) — Director
7. Boy (1969) — Director
8. The Ceremony (1971) — Director
9. Violence at Noon (1966) — Director
10. Max My Love (1986) — Director
11. The Man Who Left His Will on Film (1970) — Director
12. Pleasures of the Flesh (1965) — Director
13. The Sun's Burial (1960) — Director
14. Diary of a Shinjuku Thief (1969) — Director
15. Sing a Song of Sex (1967) — Director
16. Night and Fog in Japan (1960) — Director
17. Japanese Summer: Double Suicide (1967) — Director
18. Street of Love and Hope (1959) — Director
19. Three Resurrected Drunkards (1968) — Director
20. 100 Years of Japanese Cinema (1995) — Director
21. The Catch (1961) — Director
22. Band of Ninja (1967) — Director
23. Tomorrow's Sun (1959) — Director
24. Diary of Yunbogi (1965) — Director
25. The Christian Revolt (1962) — Director
26. Dear Summer Sister (1972) — Director
27. Watashi-wa beretto (1964) — Director
28. The Forgotten Imperial Army (1963) — Director
29. Kyoto, My Mother's Place (1991) — Director
30. Mao Tse-Tung and the Cultural Revolution (1969) — Director
31. A Rebel's Fortress (1964) — Director
32. A Life of Mao (1976) — Director
33. Rahman: Father of Bengal (1973) — Director
34. The Giants (1972) — Director
35. ジョイ！バングラ (1972) — Director
36. Yokoi and His Twenty-Eight Years of Secret Life on Guam (1977) — Director
37. The Dawn of Asia (1964) — Director
38. The Journey of the Blind Musicians (1972) — Director
39. Band of Ninja Pilot (1969) — Director
40. The Greater East Asian War (1968) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Death by Hanging (1968) — Narrator (voice)
2. Yakuza Graveyard (1976) — Chief Omura
3. Level Five (1997) — Self
4. 100 Years of Japanese Cinema (1995) — Self - Narrator (voice)
5. Cinématon (1978) — N°806
6. The Strange Case of Yukio Mishima (1985) — Self
7. Akira Kurosawa: My Life in Cinema (1993) — Self
8. Kyoto, My Mother's Place (1991) — Himself
9. Scenes by the Sea: Takeshi Kitano (2000) — Self
10. A Life of Mao (1976)
11. Devotion: A Film About Ogawa Productions (2002) — Himself
12. Rahman: Father of Bengal (1973) — Interviewer
13. Yokoi and His Twenty-Eight Years of Secret Life on Guam (1977) — Self - Interviewer
14. De droomproducenten (1984) — Self
15. What's a Director? (2006)
16. A Visit to Ogawa Productions (1981) — Himself
17. The Oshima Gang (2010)
18. The Oshima Gang (1983) — Self
19. The Man Who Left His Soul on Film (1983)
20. ΦIDEA (1988)