Nagisa Ōshima
Known for: Directing
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.
Filmography
Film
Cinématon
N°806
1978
Film
Death by Hanging
Narrator (voice)
1968
Film
Yakuza Graveyard
Chief Omura
1976
Film
The Oshima Gang
Self
1983
Film
Akira Kurosawa: My Life in Cinema
Self
1993
Film
Scenes by the Sea: Takeshi Kitano
Self
2000
Film
Devotion: A Film About Ogawa Productions
Himself
2002
Film
The Strange Case of Yukio Mishima
Self
1985
Rahman: Father of Bengal
Interviewer
1973
Film
100 Years of Japanese Cinema
Self - Narrator (voice)
1995
Film
What's a Director?
2006
Film
De droomproducenten
Self
1984
Film
Level Five
Self
1997
Film
The Oshima Gang
2010
Film
Kyoto, My Mother's Place
Himself
1991
Film
ΦIDEA
1988
Film
The Man Who Left His Soul on Film
1983
Film
A Life of Mao
1976
Film
A Visit to Ogawa Productions
Himself
1981
Film
Yokoi and His Twenty-Eight Years of Secret Life on Guam
Self - Interviewer
1977