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Nagisa Ōshima
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.
He is often 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 filmmaking style bold, innovative and provocative, common themes include youthful rebellion, class and racial discrimination, and taboo sexuality.
As director
Taboo
100 Years of Japanese Cinema
Kyoto, My Mother's Place
Max My Love
Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence
Empire of Passion
Yokoi and His Twenty-Eight Years of Secret Life on Guam
In the Realm of the Senses
A Life of Mao
Rahman: Father of Bengal
Dear Summer Sister
The Journey of the Blind Musicians
The Giants
ジョイ！バングラ
The Ceremony
The Man Who Left His Will on Film
Mao Tse-Tung and the Cultural Revolution
Boy
Diary of a Shinjuku Thief
Band of Ninja Pilot
Death by Hanging
Three Resurrected Drunkards
The Greater East Asian War
Japanese Summer: Double Suicide
Sing a Song of Sex
Band of Ninja
Violence at Noon
Pleasures of the Flesh
Diary of Yunbogi
A Rebel's Fortress
As actor
The Oshima Gang
What's a Director?
Devotion: A Film About Ogawa Productions
Scenes by the Sea: Takeshi Kitano
Level Five
100 Years of Japanese Cinema
Akira Kurosawa: My Life in Cinema
Kyoto, My Mother's Place
ΦIDEA
The Strange Case of Yukio Mishima
De droomproducenten
The Oshima Gang
The Man Who Left His Soul on Film
A Visit to Ogawa Productions
Cinématon
Yokoi and His Twenty-Eight Years of Secret Life on Guam
Yakuza Graveyard
A Life of Mao
Rahman: Father of Bengal
Death by Hanging