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Director / Screenwriter
1932 - 
Born March 31, Kyoto, Japan
Key Genres: Drama, Comedy, War  TSPDT Rating: 7
Key Collaborators: Keiichi Uraoka (Editor), Fumio Watanabe (Leading Player), Mamoru Sasaki (Screenwriter), Kei Sato (Leading Character Player), Jusho Toda (Production Designer), Akiko Koyama (Leading Character Player), Yasuhiro Yoshioka (Cinematographer), Rokko Toura (Character Player), Masayuki Nakajima (Producer), Hikaru Hayashi (Composer)
Recommended: Boy (1969), The Ceremony (1971) 
Worth a Look: Cruel Story of Youth (1960), Night and Fog in Japan (1960), Death by Hanging (1968), The Man Who Left His Will on Film (1970), In the Realm of the Senses (1976), Gohatto (1999)
Approach with Caution: Three Resurrected Drunkards (1968), Diary of a Shinjuku Thief (1969)
Duds: Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (1983)
Links: [ IMDB ] [ TCMDB ] [ All-Movie Guide ] [ Senses of Cinema: Great Directors ] [ Film Reference ] [ Strictly Film School ] [ Derek Malcolm's Century of Films: Boy (Shonen) ] [ Filmbug Profile ] [ Wikipedia ] [ Sight & Sound Article (2009) ] [ The Criterion Collection ] [ Harvard Film Archive ]
Books: [ The Films of Oshima Nagisa: Images of a Japanese Iconoclast ] [ Cinema, Censorship, and the State: The Writings of Nagisa Oshima 1956-1978
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1,000 Greatest Films: The Ceremony (1971), In the Realm of the Senses (1976)
 
 
 

 

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