Direction: Nagisa Ôshima

Direction Nagisa Ôshima

Cast Hashizo Okawa · Ryutaro Otomo · Satomi Oka · Rentarô Mikuni

Plot In the year 1637 in Shimabara of Tokugawa-era Japan, oppressed peasant Christians revolt against the shogunate with the aid of a charismatic Christian rebel leader Shiro Amakusa.

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 Rentarô Mikuni · Hugh Hurd · Jun Hamamura · Toshirô Ishidô

Plot One of Oshima’s two film adaptations set during World War II, The Catch shows how perceived differences between the Japanese and others perpetuated conflict. In this case, an African American...

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 Hiroshi Fujikawa · Yuki Tominaga · Yûko Mochizuki · Michio Ito

Plot The film Oshima made was originally titled The Boy Who Sold Pigeon, but the producers changed the films title to Street of Love and Hope, , against Oshima's wishes. The...

Direction Nagisa Ôshima

Cast Kazuo Goto · Emiko Iwasaki · Sugio Fukuoka · Keiichi Fukuda

Plot Oshima's provocative film throws up more questions than it could ever hope to answer (about politics, about film-making, about youth), but is nonetheless fascinating. Playing with notions of reality with...

Direction Nagisa Ôshima

Cast David Bowie · Ryuichi Sakamoto · Takeshi Kitano · Jack Thompson

Plot In 1942 British soldier Jack Celliers comes to a Japanese prison camp. The camp is run by Yonoi, who has a firm belief in discipline, honor and glory. In his...

Direction Nagisa Ôshima

Cast Kenzo Kawarazaki · Atsuko Kaku · Atsuo Nakamura · Akiko Koyama

Plot Oshima Nagisa's The Ceremony is a fascinating study of Japan's war and post-war period, as seen through the eyes of a young man from an influential family. The Ceremony is...

Direction Nagisa Ôshima

Cast Miyuki Kuwano · Fumio Watanabe · Hiroshi Akutagawa · Shinko Ujiie

Plot One of Oshima's most ingenious and radical films uses the wedding celebration of two young activists as the backdrop for a series of political confrontations shot with a dazzling theatricality,...

Direction Nagisa Ôshima

Cast Hideo Kanze · Hideko Kawaguchi · Saeda Kawaguchi · Narumi Kayashima

Plot A new study by Oshima of the sexuality and violence that mark Japanese society: the portrayal of a rapist and killer of women constructed thanks to the memories of his...

Direction Nagisa Ôshima

Cast Yusuke Kawazu · Miyuki Kuwano · Yoshiko Kuga · Toshiko Kobayashi

Plot A young woman named Makoto is indulging her habit of hanging out in a bar, then cadging a ride home from some man she’s met. But this time the man...

Direction Nagisa Ôshima

Cast Hosei Komatsu

Direction Nagisa Ôshima

Cast Masahiko Tsugawa · Kayoko Honjo · Isao Sasaki · Kamatari Fujiwara

Plot In Osaka's slum, youth without futures engage in pilfering, assault and robbery, prostitution, and the buying and selling of identity cards and of blood. Alliances constantly shift. Tatsu and Takeshi,...

Direction Nagisa Ôshima

Cast Kazuko Yoshiyuki · Tatsuya Fuji · Takahiro Tamura · Takuzo Kawatani

Plot Oshima takes the tradition of kaidan-eiga (ghost stories), so widespread in Japanese cinema, to construct this beautiful film on a passionate and tragic love affair that defies social taboos.

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 Katsuo Nakamura · Mariko Kaga · Yumiko Nogawa · Masako Yagi

Plot Director Nagisa Oshima's film uses the "pink" genre to mask an allegory about the materialism of post-war Japan (the original title translates as "Indulgence"). Katsuo Nakamura stars as a man...

Direction Nagisa Ôshima

Cast Eiko Matsuda · Tatsuya Fuji · Aoi Nakajima · Taiji Tonoyama

Plot The film for which Oshima earned worldwide fame and marked a new era in the way sexuality was portrayed in cinema. The true story of Sada Abe, the woman who...

Direction Nagisa Ôshima

Cast Ichirô Araki · Koji Iwabuchi · Kazuyoshi Kushida · Hiroshi Satō

Plot A group of provincial high school students, in Tokyo for their university entrance examinations, are thoroughly disillusioned with the older generation and see no hope for the future. They respond...

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...