Nagisa Ōshima
Japanese film director and screenwriter (1932-2013) · Japan · On the map · Directors · Died at 80
Nagisa Ōshima was a Japanese film director, writer, and left-wing activist who is best known for his fiction films, of which he directed 23 features in a career spanning from 1959 to 1999.
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Devotion: A Film About Ogawa ProductionsFilm, Himself2000Blue Ribbon Awards for Best DirectorAwardMedal with Purple RibbonAward1999
TabooFilm, Director, Writer1995
100 Years of Japanese CinemaFilm, Director, Writer1991
Kyoto, My Mother's PlaceFilm, Director, Writer1985
The Strange Case of Yukio MishimaFilm1984Mainichi Film Award for Best DirectorAwardMainichi Film Award for Best ScreenplayAward1978Cannes Best Director AwardAward
CinématonFilm, 1978N°8061976Sutherland TrophyAward1972Mainichi Film Award for Best ScreenplayAward
Dear Summer SisterFilm, 1972Director, Writer1971
The CeremonyFilm, Director, Writer1969
BoyFilm, Director1967
Band of NinjaFilm, Director, Writer1965
Diary of YunbogiFilm, Director, Writer1964
The Dawn of AsiaSeries, Director1963
The Forgotten Imperial ArmyFilm, Director, Writer1961Blue Ribbon Awards for Best NewcomerAwardDirectors Guild of Japan New Directors AwardAward
The CatchFilm, 1961Director1959
Street of Love and HopeFilm, Director, Writer1932Born31 March 1932People around Nagisa
Taiji Tonoyama Nagisa directed In the Realm of the Senses (1989)
Fumio Watanabe Nagisa directed Cruel Story of Youth and Boy
Rokkō Toura Also in Night and Fog in Japan (1960)
Masao Adachi Nagisa produced Death by Hanging (1971)
Hideo Kanze Also in Violence at Noon and Band of Ninja
Takeshi Kitano Nagisa directed Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (1983)
Rentarō Mikuni Nagisa directed The Catch and The Revolutionary
Masahiko Tsugawa Nagisa directed Night and Fog in Japan (1960)
Tatsuya Fuji Nagisa directed In the Realm of the Senses (1976)
Anatole Dauman Produced In the Realm of the Senses (1976)
Victoria Abril Nagisa directed Max, Mon Amour (1986)
Milena Vukotic Nagisa directed Max, Mon Amour (1986)
Pierre Étaix Nagisa directed Max, Mon Amour (1986)
Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu Nagisa directed Max, Mon Amour (1986)
Anthony Higgins Nagisa directed Max, Mon Amour (1986)
Sabine Haudepin Nagisa directed Max, Mon Amour (1986)
Eitarō Ozawa Nagisa directed The Ceremony (1971)
Yūko Mochizuki Nagisa directed A Town of Love and Hope (1959)
Diana Quick Nagisa directed Max, Mon Amour (1986)
Jun Hamamura Nagisa directed The Sun's Burial (1960)
Katsuo Nakamura Nagisa directed The Pleasures of the Flesh (1965)
Hideo Murota Nagisa directed Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (1983)
Takuzo Kawatani Nagisa directed Empire of Passion (1989)
David Bowie Nagisa directed Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (1983)
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Death by Hanging 1968
Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence 1983
Boy 1969
Empire of Passion 1978
Taboo 1999
Also in Deutsch
Filmography 40
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Television 1
Media & music
Photos 2
Awards
About this person
He is 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 film style was bold, innovative and provocative. Common themes in his work include youthful rebellion, class and racial discrimination and taboo sexuality.
