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Nagisa Ōshima
Okayama, Japan
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…
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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.
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2016
Short Cuts : In the Realm of the Senses
Movie Original Film Writer
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2010
The Oshima Gang
Movie
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2006
What's a Director?
Movie
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2002
Devotion: A Film About Ogawa Productions
Movie Himself
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2000
Scenes by the Sea: Takeshi Kitano
Movie Self
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1999
Taboo
Movie Director
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1997
Level Five
Movie Self
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1995
100 Years of Japanese Cinema
Movie Self - Narrator (voice)
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1993
Akira Kurosawa: My Life in Cinema
Movie Self
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1991
Kyoto, My Mother's Place
Movie Himself
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1988
ΦIDEA
Movie
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1986
Max My Love
Movie Director
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1985
The Strange Case of Yukio Mishima
Movie Self
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1984
De droomproducenten
Movie Self
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1983
The Oshima Gang
Movie Self
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1983
Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence
Movie Screenplay
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- 1983
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1981
A Visit to Ogawa Productions
Movie Himself
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1978
Cinématon
Movie N°806
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1978
Empire of Passion
Movie Writer
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1977
Yokoi and His Twenty-Eight Years of Secret Life on Guam
Movie Self - Interviewer
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1976
Yakuza Graveyard
Movie Chief Omura
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1976
In the Realm of the Senses
Movie Director
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1976
A Life of Mao
Movie
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1973
Rahman: Father of Bengal
Movie Interviewer
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1972
The Journey of the Blind Musicians
Movie Director
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1972
Dear Summer Sister
Movie Writer
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1972
ジョイ！バングラ
Movie Director
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1972
The Giants
Movie Director
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1971
The Ceremony
Movie Director
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1970
The Man Who Left His Will on Film
Movie Director
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1969
Boy
Movie Director
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1969
Mao Tse-Tung and the Cultural Revolution
Movie Director
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1969
Diary of a Shinjuku Thief
Movie Editor
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1969
When Twilight Draws Near
Movie Writer
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1969
Band of Ninja Pilot
Movie Director
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1968
The Greater East Asian War
Movie Director
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1968
Three Resurrected Drunkards
Movie Writer
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1968
Death by Hanging
Movie Narrator (voice)
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1967
Japanese Summer: Double Suicide
Movie Writer
