Nagisa Ōshima

Nagisa Ōshima

Born: March 31, 1932
Died: January 15, 2013
in Okayama, Japan
Nagisa Ōshima (大島 渚) was a Japanese film director and screenwriter. After graduating from Kyoto University he was hired by Shochiku Ltd. and quickly progressed to directing his own movies, making his debut feature “A Town of Love and Hope” in 1959.

Movies for Nagisa Ōshima...

The Enigmatic Charlotte Rampling
Title: The Enigmatic Charlotte Rampling
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: June 18, 2023
Type: Movie
Screen icon Charlotte Rampling has fascinated the world of cinema, fashion and photography with her mysterious and almost inaccessible beauty. A major figure in genre and auteur films, she is unclassifiable: between presence and absence, shyness and audacity, she's always hypnotic, magnetic and fascinating. From her film debut in the mid-1960s in England, to her unconventional career path, through the tragic loss suicide of her older sister that will irremediably mark her acting, this film is a dive into the existential quest of a complex actress, whose every facet is discovered through her roles. Through a conversation with the actress herself, along with personal archives and extracts from her films, this documentary raws a dazzling portrait of her life and career.
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The Oshima Gang
Title: The Oshima Gang
Released: March 13, 2010
Type: Movie
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What's a Director?
Title: What's a Director?
Released: November 4, 2006
Type: Movie
Works commemorating the 70th anniversary of the founding of Japan mapping Supervision Association
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Devotion: A Film About Ogawa Productions
Title: Devotion: A Film About Ogawa Productions
Character: Himself
Released: January 26, 2002
Type: Movie
Devotion investigates the extremely complex and heirarchical relationships among a committed group of Japanese filmmakers who dedicated up to 30 years of their lives making films for one man-Ogawa Shinsuke. Members of Ogawa Pro filmed the student movement of the late 60's; the fight by farmers to save their land from government confiscaton for the Narita airport at Sanrizuka; and the village life of a small farming community, Magino Village, in northern Japan. These heartbreaking and sometimes funny stories have never been told on film before. Rare footage, stills, and diaries with interviews with Oshima Nagisa, Hara Kazuo and Robert Kramer make this historical inquiry visually exciting as well as valuable.
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Scenes by the Sea: Takeshi Kitano
Title: Scenes by the Sea: Takeshi Kitano
Released: May 5, 2000
Type: Movie
First major English-language documentary profile of the cult Japanese actor/director, Takeshi Kitano. Featuring interviews with many of his regular contributors and colleagues, the film explores Kitano's rise from working-class poverty to superstar of Japanese radio, TV, comedy and journalism, and follows the making of his US-Japanese gangster film, 'Brother'.
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Level Five
Title: Level Five
Character: Self
Released: February 19, 1997
Type: Movie
The French computer programmer Laura inherits the task of making a computer game of the Battle of Okinawa in Japan during World War 2. She searches the Internet for information on the battle, and interviews Japanese experts and witnesses. The extraordinary circumstances of the Battle of Okinawa lead Laura to reflect deeply on her own life and humanity in general, particularly the influence of history and memories.
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100 Years of Japanese Cinema
Title: 100 Years of Japanese Cinema
Character: Self - Narrator (voice)
Released: September 1, 1995
Type: Movie
The story of the first century of Japanese cinema from the point of view of the controversial Japanese filmmaker Nagisa Ōshima.
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Akira Kurosawa: My Life in Cinema
Title: Akira Kurosawa: My Life in Cinema
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1993
Type: Movie
Nagisa Oshima interviews Akira Kurosawa, leading him to share his thoughts about filmmaking, his life and works, and numerous anecdotes relating to his films and his various film activities.
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Kyoto, My Mother's Place
Title: Kyoto, My Mother's Place
Character: Himself
Released: January 1, 1991
Type: Movie
Story of Kyoto: its history, culture, as well as the role it has played in the director's life and the life of his mother.
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ΦIDEA
Title: ΦIDEA
Released: July 18, 1988
Type: Movie
Documentary featuring Nagisa Ōshima and Masuaki Kiyota, a Uri Geller-esque psychic medium
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The Strange Case of Yukio Mishima
Title: The Strange Case of Yukio Mishima
Character: Self
Released: December 3, 1985
Type: Movie
A BBC television documentary on the life of Yukio Mishima that highlights the many known major aspects of his life and personality.
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The Oshima Gang
Title: The Oshima Gang
Character: Self
Released: December 31, 1983
Type: Movie
Documentary about the making of Nagisa Oshima's 1983 film MERRY CHRISTMAS MR. LAWRENCE.
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The Man Who Left His Soul on Film
Title: The Man Who Left His Soul on Film
Released: February 2, 1983
Type: Movie
Documentary about Nagisa Oshima. It includes interviews with Oshima, Donald Richie, Roger Pulvers and Paul Mayersberg
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A Visit to Ogawa Productions
Title: A Visit to Ogawa Productions
Character: Himself
Released: January 1, 1981
Type: Movie
A Visit to Ogawa Productions offers a rare insight into the social and cinematic philosophy of one of Japan's best-known documentary film collectives. As the film reveals, Ogawa Productions' in-depth portraits of Japanese society - whether of protest movements or traditional agricultural life - grew out of an unusual commitment to integrate themselves with the communities they filmed, to the extent that their film-making literally became an alternative lifestyle.
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Cinématon
Title: Cinématon
Character: N°806
Released: December 20, 1978
Type: Movie
Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011. Composed over 36 years from 1978 until 2006, it consists of a series of over 2,821 silent vignettes (cinématons), each 3 minutes and 25 seconds long, of various celebrities, artists, journalists and friends of the director, each doing whatever they want for the allotted time. Subjects of the film include directors Barbet Schroeder, Nagisa Oshima, Volker Schlöndorff, Ken Loach, Benjamin Cuq, Youssef Chahine, Wim Wenders, Joseph Losey, Jean-Luc Godard, Samuel Fuller and Terry Gilliam, chess grandmaster Joël Lautier, and actors Roberto Benigni, Stéphane Audran, Julie Delpy and Lesley Chatterley. Gilliam is featured eating a 100-franc note, while Fuller smokes a cigar. Courant's favourite subject was a 7-month-old baby. The film was screened in its then-entirety in Avignon in November 2009 and was screened in Redondo Beach, CA on April 9, 2010.
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Yakuza Graveyard
Title: Yakuza Graveyard
Character: Muramoto
Released: October 30, 1976
Type: Movie
A police investigator cracks down on yakuza business, but once he realizes the police are in negotiations with certain factions, he sides with his own syndicate of choice.
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A Life of Mao
Title: A Life of Mao
Released: September 12, 1976
Type: Movie
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Rahman: Father of Bengal
Title: Rahman: Father of Bengal
Character: Interviewer
Released: January 6, 1973
Type: Movie
Documentary about the politician Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
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Death by Hanging
Title: Death by Hanging
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: February 2, 1968
Type: Movie
A Korean man is sentenced to death in Japan but somehow survives his execution, sending the authorities into a panic about what to do next.