Nagisa Ōshima

Director

Born: March 31, 1932
Died: January 15, 2013 (age 80)
From: Okayama, Japan

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…

Filmography (53)

The Oshima Gang (2010)
What's a Director? (2006)
Devotion: A Film About Ogawa Productions (2002)
Himself
Scenes by the Sea: Takeshi Kitano (2000)
Self
Taboo (1999)
Director
Level Five (1997)
Self
100 Years of Japanese Cinema (1995)
Director
Akira Kurosawa: My Life in Cinema (1993)
Self
Kyoto, My Mother's Place (1991)
Director
ΦIDEA (1988)
Max My Love (1986)
Director
The Strange Case of Yukio Mishima (1985)
Self
De droomproducenten (1984)
Self
The Oshima Gang (1983)
Self
Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (1983)
Director
The Man Who Left His Soul on Film (1983)
A Visit to Ogawa Productions (1981)
Himself
Cinématon (1978)
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Empire of Passion (1978)
Director
Yokoi and His Twenty-Eight Years of Secret Life on Guam (1977)
Director
Yakuza Graveyard (1976)
Chief Omura
In the Realm of the Senses (1976)
Director
A Life of Mao (1976)
Director
Rahman: Father of Bengal
Rahman: Father of Bengal (1973)
Director
The Journey of the Blind Musicians
The Journey of the Blind Musicians (1972)
Director
Dear Summer Sister (1972)
Director
ジョイ！バングラ
ジョイ！バングラ (1972)
Director
The Giants (1972)
Director
The Ceremony (1971)
Director
The Man Who Left His Will on Film (1970)
Director