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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: 'Beat' Takeshi Kitano, Yoichi Sai, Koji Matoba
Director: Nagisa Oshima
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Takeshi 'Beat' Kitano takes the lead in this stylish Samurai drama from director Nagisa Oshima ('In the Realm of the Senses', 'Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence'). Tashiro (Tadanobu Asano) and Kano (Ryuhei Matsuda) are the two newest recruits to the Shinsen-gumi militia, and their development is being ..read more »

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Level Five
on DVD
(1996)
Starring: Kinjo Shigeaki, Catherine Belkhodja, Kenji Tokitsu
Director: Chris Marker
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Chris Marker directs this disturbing documentary centering on events during the Battle of Okinawa at the close of WWII. The film employs the story of French computer programmer Laura (Catherine Belkhodja) who has been given the job of constructing a computer programme of events in the battle. As ..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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Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence - Blu-ray
(1982)
Starring: David Bowie, Tom Conti, Ryuichi Sakamato
Director: Nagisa Oshima
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During World War Two, English soldier Jack Celliers (David Bowie) arrives in a Japanese POW camp after an exhausting trial. Yonnoi (musician Ryuichi Sakamato, who also wrote the memorable soundtrack), the new camp commandant, becomes obsessed with breaking the new inmate's spirit, whilst Lieutenant ..read more »

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Empire Of Passion
on DVD
(1978)
Starring: Kazuko Yoshiyuki, Tatsuya Fuji, Takahiro Tamura
Director: Nagisa Oshima
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Also known as Phantom Love, the French/Japanese co-production L'Empire de la Passion follows famed Japanese director Nagisa Oshima's multinational production, the chilling and erotic In the Realm of the Senses, which was banned in several countries and was disqualified from appearing at the Cannes ..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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Nagisa Oshima's notorious masterpeice tells the story of the obsessive affair between a young servant girl and her master which ended in 1936, when the girl was discovered wandering the streets with her dead lover's severed penis in her hand. One of the most controversial films of the last 30 years,..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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Nagisa Oshima's notorious masterpeice tells the story of the obsessive affair between a young servant girl and her master which ended in 1936, when the girl was discovered wandering the streets with her dead lover's severed penis in her hand. One of the most controversial films of the last 30 years,..read more »

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Pleasures Of The Flesh
on DVD
(1964)
Starring: Yumiko Nogawa, Katsuo Nakamura, Mariko Kaga
Director: Nagisa Oshima
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Acclaimed director Nagisa Oshima's thriller about guilt, obsession and materialism in post-war Japan. Teacher Wakizaka (Katsuo Nakamura) murders the man who has raped Shoko (Mariko Kaga), the student that he secretly loves. He is subsequently blackmailed by a thief who witnessed the murder, and ..read more »

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Naked Youth
on DVD
(1961)
Starring: Yusuke Kawazu, Miyuki Kuwano, Yoshiko Kuga
Director: Nagisa Oshima
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Director Oshima's second feature deals with the alienation of youth in post-Hiroshima Japan. Makoto (Miyuki Kuwano), a high school student falls for Kiyoshi (Yusuke Kawazu), a violent hoodlum, who introduces her to a life of extortion and blackmail. A bleak, downbeat view of the disillusionment ..read more »

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Night And Fog In Japan
on DVD
(1960)
Starring: Kei Sato, Akiko Koyama, Rokko Toura
Director: Nigisa Oshima
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Director Nagisa Oshima's reflections on the failure of Japanese left-wing radicalism during the 1950s. Having let go of their activist pasts years before, a group of former revolutionaries are reunited at the wedding of one of their own. Everything passes off quietly until the last arrival begins ..read more »

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