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Nagisa Oshima
Nagisa Oshima was the originator and most famous director of the Japanese New Wave. His controversial films are frequently difficult, highly intellectual, and darkly funny; they revolutionized Japanese cinema by infusing it with sex and with biting social and political commentary. Born on March 31, 1932, in Kyoto, Oshima was the son of a civil servant of samurai descent. After his father died when he was six, he retreated into a lonely childhood spent devouring his father's library, including a large number of books on Socialism and Communism. In 1950, Oshima was admitted to the law faculty of Kyoto University and quickly became president of the Kyoto Prefecture Student Alliance. In 1953, he led a mass demonstration in which 70 people ended up injured. Oshima entered his senior year dispirited and was branded a Red Student, which impeded his search for a job. Though he knew nothing about filmmaking, he took the entrance exam at Shochiku Ofuna Studio out of desperation, and he received the highest possible score.
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Nagisa Oshima - filmography
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Gohatto
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Ryuhei Matsuda, Shinji Takeda, Tadanobu Asano
Director: Nagisa Oshima
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Widely regarded as the greatest living Japanese director as well as one of the film world's foremost hierophants of transgression, Nagisa Oshima returns from a long hiatus with a film worthy of his reputation. Set in 1865 during the waning days of the Tokugawa shogunate, it focuses on an exotic ..read more »

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Level Five
on DVD
(1996)
Starring: Catherine Belkhodja, Kenji Tokitsu, Nagisa Oshima
Director: Chris Marker
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From visionary director Chris Marker comes Level Five the story of Laura, a computer game designer. Whilst working on a new World War II game following
the epic battle of Okinawa, Japan she searches the internet for background information and finds harrowing eye witness accounts, disturbing ..read more »

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Max Mon Amour
on DVD
(1986)
Starring: Charlotte Rampling, Anthony Higgins, Victoria Abril
Director: Nagisa Oshima
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A suspicious husband discovers that the object of his wife's infidelity is none other than a chimpanzee named Max. Not wanting to appear old-fashioned, he invites the simian lover to move in. In his obssession to discover the reason for his wife's attraction to a beast, the husband loses sight of ..read more »

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Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence - Blu-ray
(1982)
Starring: David Bowie, Tom Conti, Ryuichi Sakamato
Director: Nagisa Oshima
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Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence was the first English-language project of Japanese director Nagisa Oshima (Death by Hanging, In the Realm of the Senses). In tune with his previous filmic essays on racism and brutality, Merry Christmas concentrates on a war of wills between rebellious POW David Bowie ..read more »

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Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence
on DVD
(1982)
Starring: David Bowie, Tom Conti, Ryuichi Sakamato
Director: Nagisa Oshima
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Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence was the first English-language project of Japanese director Nagisa Oshima (Death by Hanging, In the Realm of the Senses). In tune with his previous filmic essays on racism and brutality, Merry Christmas concentrates on a war of wills between rebellious POW David Bowie ..read more »

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Empire Of Passion
on DVD
(1978)
Starring: Tatsuya Fuji, Kazuko Yoshiyuki, Takahiro Tamura
Director: Nagisa Oshima
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In feudal Japan a young soldier begins an intense affair with an older married woman. Driven by passion, obsession and jealousy they decide to violently murder her husband and dispose of the body in a nearby well. Claiming her husband is working away from home the couple carry on their affair in ..read more »

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In The Realm Of The Senses - Blu-ray
(1976)
Starring: Tatsuya Fuji, Seiko Matsuda
Director: Nagisa Oshima
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In 1936, in the midst of rising Japanese militarism, a former prostitute, Sada, goes to work as a maid in a brothel. The house's handsome owner, Kichizo, soon begins to court her, and Sada eagerly returns his attentions. Their subsequent affair and constant lovemaking grow more and more intense, ..read more »

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In The Realm Of The Senses
on DVD
(1976)
Starring: Tatsuya Fuji, Seiko Matsuda
Director: Nagisa Oshima
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In 1936, in the midst of rising Japanese militarism, a former prostitute, Sada, goes to work as a maid in a brothel. The house's handsome owner, Kichizo, soon begins to court her, and Sada eagerly returns his attentions. Their subsequent affair and constant lovemaking grow more and more intense, ..read more »

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Violence At High Noon
on DVD
(1966)
Starring: Hideo Kanze, Hideko Kawaguchi, Saeda Kawaguchi
Director: Nagisa Oshima
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One of Oshima's most powerful and controversial films. Telling the brutal story of real-life rapist and serial murderer Eisuke (Kei Sato), and his relationship with his protective schoolteacher wife Matsuko (Akiko Koyama), and his only surviving victim Shino (Saeda Kawagushi) Oshima takes the ..read more »

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Pleasures Of The Flesh
on DVD
(1964)
Starring: Katsuo Nakamura, Mariko Kaga, Yumiko Nogawa
Director: Nagisa Oshima
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Katsuo Nakamura stars as a man blackmailed by a thief, who makes him hold on to some stolen loot while the thief serves a jail sentence. Nakamura is led into temptation by all that money sitting around, so he decides to spend it on wild partying and sex before killing himself to avoid retribution.

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The Sun's Burial
on DVD
(1960)
Starring: Masahiko Tsugawa, Kayoko Honoo, Isao Sasaki
Director: Nagisa Oshima
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Set in the post-war slums of Osaka, The Sun's Burial follows the lives and fates of the denizens of this hellish ghetto. Pimps, prostitutes, drug addicts, vagrants, hustlers and gangsters struggle to survive amidst the poverty and decay of 1950's Japan.

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