Nagisa Ōshima
Birthday
1932/03/31
Day of death
2013/01/15 (80 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Okayama, Japan
Also know as
大島 渚, Nagisa Ooshima, Нагиса Осима, Nagisa Ôshima
Biography
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.
Acting
(2006) What's a Director?
as ---
(1976) Yakuza Graveyard
as Chief Omura
(1968) Death by Hanging
as Narrator (voice)
(1991) Kyoto, My Mother's Place
as Himself
(1976) A Life of Mao
as ---
(1981) A Visit to Ogawa Productions
as Himself
(2010) The Oshima Gang
as ---
(1978) Cinématon
as N°806
(2002) Devotion: A Film About Ogawa Productions
as Himself
(1993) Akira Kurosawa: My Life in Cinema
as Self
(1985) The Strange Case of Yukio Mishima
as Self
(1995) 100 Years of Japanese Cinema
as Self - Narrator (voice)
(1983) The Oshima Gang
as Self
(1983) The Man Who Left His Soul on Film
as ---
(1973) Rahman: Father of Bengal
as Interviewer
(1997) Level Five
as Self
(2000) Scenes by the Sea: Takeshi Kitano
as ---
(1988) ΦIDEA
as ---
(1977) Yokoi and His Twenty-Eight Years of Secret Life on Guam
as Self - Interviewer