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Nagisa Ōshima

1932 - 2013 (age 80) • Directing

Nagisa Ōshima (大島 渚, Ōshima Nagisa; 31 March 1932 – 15 January 2013) was a Japanese filmmaker, writer, and left-wing activist best known for his fiction feature films, of which he directed 23 in a career spanning from 1959 to 1999.

Known For

In the Realm of the Senses

66%

Director

1976

Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence

73%

Director

1983

Empire of Passion

68%

Director

1978

Taboo

66%

Director

1999

Death by Hanging

75%

Director

1968

Cruel Story of Youth

66%

Director

1960

Boy

72%

Director

1969

The Ceremony

68%

Director

1971

Short Cuts : In the Realm of the Senses

Original Film Writer

2016

The Oshima Gang

2010

What's a Director?

2006

Devotion: A Film About Ogawa Productions

100%

Himself

2002

Scenes by the Sea: Takeshi Kitano

80%

Self

2000

Taboo

66%

Director

1999

Taboo

66%

Screenplay

1999

Level Five

61%

Self

1997

100 Years of Japanese Cinema

58%

Self - Narrator (voice)

1995

100 Years of Japanese Cinema

58%

Director

1995

100 Years of Japanese Cinema

58%

Writer

1995

Akira Kurosawa: My Life in Cinema

77%

Self

1993

Kyoto, My Mother's Place

80%

Himself

1991

Kyoto, My Mother's Place

80%

Director

1991

Kyoto, My Mother's Place

80%

Writer

1991

ΦIDEA

1988

Max My Love

58%

Director

1986

Max My Love

58%

Writer

1986

The Strange Case of Yukio Mishima

35%

Self

1985

De droomproducenten

100%

Self

1984

The Oshima Gang

Self

1983

Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence

73%

Director

1983

Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence

73%

Screenplay

1983

The Man Who Left His Soul on Film

1983

A Visit to Ogawa Productions

Himself

1981

Cinématon

49%

N°806

1978

Empire of Passion

68%

Director

1978

Empire of Passion

68%

Writer

1978

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