Nagisa Ōshima
Director · 1932 – 2013 · Okayama, Japan
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.
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Movie7.5ComedyDramaA Korean man is sentenced to death in Japan but somehow survives his execution, sending the authorities into a panic about what to do next.
Movie8.0DocumentaryTV MovieFirst major English-language documentary profile of the cult Japanese actor/director, Takeshi Kitano. Featuring interviews with many of his regular contributors and colleagues, the film explores Kitano's rise from working-class poverty to superstar of Japanese radio, TV, comedy and journalism, and follows the making of his US-Japanese gangster film, 'Brother'.
Scenes by the Sea: Takeshi Kitano
2000 · 2 votes
Movie4.9DocumentaryCinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011. Composed over 36 years from 1978 until 2006, it consists of a series of over 2,821 silent vignettes (cinématons), each 3 minutes and 25 seconds long, of various celebrities, artists, journalists and friends of the director, each doing whatever they want for the allotted time. Subjects of the film include directors Barbet Schroeder, Nagisa Oshima, Volker Schlöndorff, Ken Loach, Benjamin Cuq, Youssef Chahine, Wim Wenders, Joseph Losey, Jean-Luc Godard, Samuel Fuller and Terry Gilliam, chess grandmaster Joël Lautier, and actors Roberto Benigni, Stéphane Audran, Julie Delpy and Lesley Chatterley. Gilliam is featured eating a 100-franc note, while Fuller smokes a cigar. Courant's favourite subject was a 7-month-old baby. The film was screened in its then-entirety in Avignon in November 2009 and was screened in Redondo Beach, CA on April 9, 2010.
Cinématon
1978 · 7 votes
Movie6.6ActionCrimeA police investigator cracks down on yakuza business, but once he realizes the police are in negotiations with certain factions, he sides with his own syndicate of choice.
MovieDocumentaryDocumentary about the making of Nagisa Oshima's 1983 film MERRY CHRISTMAS MR. LAWRENCE.
The Oshima Gang
1983
Movie10.0DocumentaryDevotion investigates the extremely complex and heirarchical relationships among a committed group of Japanese filmmakers who dedicated up to 30 years of their lives making films for one man-Ogawa Shinsuke. Members of Ogawa Pro filmed the student movement of the late 60's; the fight by farmers to save their land from government confiscaton for the Narita airport at Sanrizuka; and the village life of a small farming community, Magino Village, in northern Japan. These heartbreaking and sometimes funny stories have never been told on film before. Rare footage, stills, and diaries with interviews with Oshima Nagisa, Hara Kazuo and Robert Kramer make this historical inquiry visually exciting as well as valuable.
Devotion: A Film About Ogawa Productions
2002 · 1 votes
Movie6.1DocumentaryWarLaura, a French programmer, inherits the task of creating a game about the World War II Battle of Okinawa. Her research and interviews with Japanese experts and witnesses prompt her to reflect on life, humanity, and the lasting influence of history and memories.
Level Five
1997 · 32 votes
Movie3.5DocumentaryA BBC television documentary on the life of Yukio Mishima that highlights the many known major aspects of his life and personality.
The Strange Case of Yukio Mishima
1985 · 4 votes
Movie10.0DocumentaryDocumentary exploring why Belgian television doesn't invest more money in Belgian cinema as is the case in e.g. the netherlands.
De droomproducenten
1984 · 1 votes
MovieDocumentaryDocumentary about Nagisa Oshima. It includes interviews with Oshima, Donald Richie, Roger Pulvers and Paul Mayersberg
Movie7.7DocumentaryTV MovieNagisa Oshima interviews Akira Kurosawa, leading him to share his thoughts about filmmaking, his life and works, and numerous anecdotes relating to his films and his various film activities.
MovieDocumentaryA Visit to Ogawa Productions offers a rare insight into the social and cinematic philosophy of one of Japan's best-known documentary film collectives. As the film reveals, Ogawa Productions' in-depth portraits of Japanese society - whether of protest movements or traditional agricultural life - grew out of an unusual commitment to integrate themselves with the communities they filmed, to the extent that their film-making literally became an alternative lifestyle.
Movie5.8DocumentaryHistoryThe story of the first century of Japanese cinema from the point of view of the controversial Japanese filmmaker Nagisa Ōshima.
MovieDramaDocumentaryThe Oshima Gang
2010
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Documentary about the politician Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
MovieDramaDocumentaryWorks commemorating the 70th anniversary of the founding of Japan mapping Supervision Association
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Movie8.0DocumentaryStory of Kyoto: its history, culture, as well as the role it has played in the director's life and the life of his mother.
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