Cinematography: Yasuhiro Yoshioka

Direction Nagisa Ôshima

Cast Kei Sato · Fumio Watanabe · Toshirô Ishidô · Masao Adachi

Plot A Korean man is sentenced to death by hanging, but he survives the execution. For the following two hours, his executioners try to work out how to handle the situation...

Direction Nagisa Ôshima

Cast Tetsuo Abe · Fumio Watanabe · Akiko Koyama · Tsuyoshi Kinoshita

Plot A film that may be less obviously formally experimental than some of Oshima's contemporary works, but is no less politically charged, Boy follows in the footsteps of Death by Hanging...

Direction Nagisa Ôshima

Cast Tadanori Yokoo · Rie Yokoyama · Kei Sato · Juro Kara

Plot The film centers around Birdie, a young, Japanese book thief who soon is caught by a woman named Umeko. As they become young lovers, the two begin stealing books together....

Direction Nagisa Ôshima

Cast Hiromi Kurita · Hosei Komatsu · Akiko Koyama · Shôji Ishibashi

Plot Like many of Oshima's films, is an experimental exploration of moral corruption, partly based on a true story. Story is about a Tokyo girl looking round Okinawa island for her...

Direction Nagisa Ôshima

Cast Kazuhiko Kato · Norihiko Hashida · Osamu Kitayama · Kei Sato

Plot This riotous comedy (in colour and Scope) is a cocktail of dumb cops, desperate Koreans, and Japanese students who don't know what's hit them. It starts with the students taking...

Direction Nagisa Ôshima

Cast Keiko Sakurai · Kei Sato · Tetsuo Ashida · Yoshiyuki Fukuda

Plot A sex-obsessed young woman, a suicidal man she meets on the street, a gun-crazy wannabe gangster—these are just three of the irrational, oddball anarchists trapped in an underground hideaway in...

Direction Tetsutaro Murano

Cast Saburo Date · Giichi Fujimoto · Jun Hongô · Yukitarô Hotaru