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Nagisa Oshima - what members say


  • Gohatto
  • Gohatto review by zero from brighton
    Rated - 5 stars Kendo for experts 14 July 2004
    ...Nagisa Oshima's film about life in a 19th century samurai militia barracks is a compelling whodunnit that leaves you stunned. The film is beautifully crafted, with fantasti...  
  • Naked Youth
  • Naked Youth review by Tom O'Dell from London
    Rated - 4 stars Actually a revolutionary and little known film 1 August 2008
    ...lm at all, but an American film of the same name released in 1961. This film by Nagisa Oshima was in fact made in 1960, and is both an enjoyable and historically important w...  

Nagisa Oshima - filmography


  • Gohatto on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Ryuhei Matsuda,  Shinji Takeda,  Tadanobu Asano
    Director: Nagisa Oshima
    Certificate: 15
    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 »
    Rate this: 3.0 66% from 438 members
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  • The Realm Of The Senses on DVD (1976)
    Starring: Tatsuya Fuji,  Seiko Matsuda
    Director: Nagisa Oshima
    Certificate: 18
    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 »
    Rate this: 2.5 55% from 872 members
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  • Pleasures Of The Flesh on DVD (1964)
    Starring: Katsuo Nakamura,  Mariko Kaga,  Yumiko Nogawa
    Director: Nagisa Oshima
    Certificate: 15
    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.
    Rate this: 2.5 51% from 16 members
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Nagisa Oshima facts

5 most recent films


Gohatto - 3.0 stars
Max Mon Amour - 2.0 stars
Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence - 3.5 stars
The Realm Of The Senses - 2.5 stars
Violence At High Noon - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films


Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence - 3.5 stars
Gohatto - 3.0 stars
The Realm Of The Senses - 2.5 stars
Empire Of Passion - 2.5 stars
Max Mon Amour - 2.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films


Pleasures Of The Flesh - 2.5 stars
Violence At High Noon - 3.0 stars
Naked Youth - 3.0 stars
The Sun's Burial - 3.5 stars
Max Mon Amour - 2.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars


Tatsuya Fuji - 2 times - show films
Hosei Komatsu - 2 times - show films
Yusuke Kawazu - 2 times - show films
Kei Sato - 2 times - show films
Fumio Watanabe - 2 times - show films