
Cast
Nagisa Ōshima
Directing
Cast
Nagisa Ōshima
Known for
Directing
Born
1932-03-31
From
Okayama, Japan
Died
2013-01-15
Also known as 大島 渚, Nagisa Ooshima, Нагиса Осима
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.

Cinématon
as N°806

Death by Hanging
as Narrator (voice)

Yakuza Graveyard
as Chief Omura

The Oshima Gang
as Self

Akira Kurosawa: My Life in Cinema
as Self

The Strange Case of Yukio Mishima
as Self

Rahman: Father of Bengal
as Interviewer

Scenes by the Sea: Takeshi Kitano
as Self

Devotion: A Film About Ogawa Productions
as Himself

The Man Who Left His Soul on Film

100 Years of Japanese Cinema
as Self - Narrator (voice)

De droomproducenten
as Self

The Oshima Gang

Level Five
as Self

What's a Director?

Yokoi and His Twenty-Eight Years of Secret Life on Guam
as Self - Interviewer

A Life of Mao

ΦIDEA

Kyoto, My Mother's Place
as Himself

A Visit to Ogawa Productions
as Himself