Direction: Nagisa Ôshima

Direction Nagisa Ôshima

Cast Ryuhei Matsuda · Tadanobu Asano · Takeshi Kitano · Yoichi Sai

Plot Set during Japan's Shogun era, this film looks at life in a samurai compound where young warriors are trained in swordfighting. A number of interpersonal conflicts are brewing in the...

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 Nagisa Ôshima

Plot Author/illustrator Sanpei Shirato’s Ninja bugei-cho was a popular graphic novel serialized across Japan in the 1960s, well loved by students and leftist radicals for its tale of a young boy’s...

Direction Nagisa Ôshima

Cast Keiko Asami · Kakuko Chino · Kotobuki Hananomoto · Kiku Hôjô

Plot Nagisa Oshima's directorial debut. It seems to be in the form of a trailer for a film that doesn't exist. It parodies the mainstream Japanese film genres of the time...

Direction Nagisa Ôshima

Cast Nagisa Ôshima

Plot If Godard’s history of French cinema for the British Film Institute’s “Century of Cinema” series was predictably polemical, Oshima’s goes it one better by producing a history of Japanese film...

Direction Nagisa Ôshima

Cast Charlotte Rampling · Anthony Higgins · Victoria Abril · Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu

Plot Reserved and cool, Margaret is the French wife of Peter, a British diplomat posted to France with their son Nelson. She takes a lover, a chimpanzee she bought from a...

Direction Nagisa Ôshima

Plot A documentary used by Oshima to draw a portrait of his mother and the city of her birth, Kyoto. Old photographs, paintings and engravings, plus some of his own footage...

Direction Nagisa Ôshima

Cast Hosei Komatsu · Ichirô Shimizu · Rokko Toura

Plot "Oshima's documentary form increasingly presents ironies, develops contradictions, and proceeds by indirect telling. The epitome of this strategy is his Daitona Senso (The Greater East Asian War, 1968), which Oshima...

Direction Nagisa Ôshima

Cast Hosei Komatsu

Plot This is a highly regarded TV documentary by Nagisa Oshima. Oshima exposes the fact that many wounded soldiers cannot receive compensation from the Japanese government because of their Korean nationality,...

Direction Nagisa Ôshima

Cast Akira Kurosawa · Nagisa Ôshima

Plot Akira Kurosawa looks back to his life and his career, talking about his films.

Direction Nagisa Ôshima

Cast Aso Sato · Sumie Kato · Akiko Koyama · Hiroshi Yagyu

Plot Watashi-wa beretto is a promotional film for the automobile manufacturer Isuzu Jidosha directed by Nagisa Ôshima. Yasujirô Ozu assisted as executive creative consultant.