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.
★7.4
MOVIE1968
Death by Hanging
as Narrator (voice)
★6.5
MOVIE1976
Yakuza Graveyard
as Chief Omura
★4.9
MOVIE1978
Cinématon
as N°806
★7.7
MOVIE1993
Akira Kurosawa: My Life in Cinema
as Self
★6.1
MOVIE1997
Level Five
as Self
MOVIE1983
The Oshima Gang
as Self
★10.0
MOVIE1984
De droomproducenten
as Self
MOVIE2006
What's a Director?
★8.0
MOVIE2000
Scenes by the Sea: Takeshi Kitano
as Self
★3.5
MOVIE1985
The Strange Case of Yukio Mishima
as Self
★10.0
MOVIE2002
Devotion: A Film About Ogawa Productions
as Himself
★5.9
MOVIE1995
100 Years of Japanese Cinema
as Self - Narrator (voice)
★8.0
MOVIE1976
A Life of Mao
MOVIE1983
The Man Who Left His Soul on Film
★8.0
MOVIE1991
Kyoto, My Mother's Place
as Himself
★8.0
MOVIE1977
Yokoi and His Twenty-Eight Years of Secret Life on Guam
as Self - Interviewer
★7.0
MOVIE1973
Rahman: Father of Bengal
as Interviewer
MOVIE2010
The Oshima Gang
MOVIE1988
ΦIDEA
MOVIE1981
A Visit to Ogawa Productions
as Himself