Nagisa Ōshima
Directing · Director · Screenplay · Writer
Born Mar 31, 1932 · Okayama, Japan
Active 1959–2013
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.
Filmography
Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (1983) — Director · ScreenplayIn the Realm of the Senses (1976) — Director · WriterDeath by Hanging (1968) — Narrator (voice) · Director · Screenplay · ProducerEmpire of Passion (1978) — Director · WriterTaboo (1999) — Director · ScreenplayBoy (1969) — DirectorCruel Story of Youth (1960) — Director · ScreenplayThe Ceremony (1971) — Director · ScreenplayYakuza Graveyard (1976) — Chief OmuraViolence at Noon (1966) — DirectorA Rebel's Fortress (1964) — Screenplay · DirectorThe Giants (1972) — Directorジョイ！バングラ (1972) — DirectorThe Sun's Burial (1960) — Director · ScreenplayNight and Fog in Japan (1960) — Writer · DirectorStreet of Love and Hope (1959) — Writer · DirectorMax My Love (1986) — Director · WriterThe Man Who Left His Will on Film (1970) — Director · StorySing a Song of Sex (1967) — Director · WriterThe Dawn of Asia (1964) — DirectorPleasures of the Flesh (1965) — Director · ScreenplayThe Catch (1961) — DirectorJapanese Summer: Double Suicide (1967) — Writer · DirectorKyoto, My Mother's Place (1991) — Director · Writer