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Nagisa Ōshima

Directing Born Mar 31, 1932 Okayama, Japan 20 credits

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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Known for

Film

Death by Hanging

as Narrator (voice)

Full filmography

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