Nagisa Ōshima
Also Known As: 大島 渚, Nagisa Ooshima, Нагиса Осима, Nagisa Ôshima
Biography: Nagisa Ōshima (大島 渚) was a Japanese film director and screenwriter. After graduating from Kyoto University he was hired by Shochiku Ltd. and quickly progressed to directing his own movies, making his debut feature “A Town of Love and Hope” in 1959.
Department: Directing
Place of Birth: Okayama, Japan
Adult: No
Deathday: January 15, 2013
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What's a Director?
Overview: Works commemorating the 70th anniversary of the founding of Japan mapping Supervision Association
Genres: Drama Documentary
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-11-04
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Yakuza Graveyard
Overview: A 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.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1976-10-30
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Death by Hanging
Overview: A Korean man is sentenced to death in Japan but somehow survives his execution, sending the authorities into a panic about what to do next.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-02-02
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Kyoto, My Mother's Place
Overview: Story of Kyoto: its history, culture, as well as the role it has played in the director's life and the life of his mother.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-09-03
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A Life of Mao
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1976-09-12
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The Enigmatic Charlotte Rampling
Overview: Screen icon Charlotte Rampling has fascinated the world of cinema, fashion and photography with her mysterious and almost inaccessible beauty. A major figure in genre and auteur films, she is unclassifiable: between presence and absence, shyness and audacity, she's always hypnotic, magnetic and fascinating. From her film debut in the mid-1960s in England, to her unconventional career path, through the tragic loss suicide of her older sister that will irremediably mark her acting, this film is a dive into the existential quest of a complex actress, whose every facet is discovered through her roles. Through a conversation with the actress herself, along with personal archives and extracts from her films, this documentary raws a dazzling portrait of her life and career.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-06-18
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A Visit to Ogawa Productions
Overview: A 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.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1981-01-01
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The Oshima Gang
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Genres: Drama Documentary
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-03-13
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Cinématon
Overview: Cinématon 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.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1978-12-20
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Devotion: A Film About Ogawa Productions
Overview: Devotion 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.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-01-26
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Akira Kurosawa: My Life in Cinema
Overview: Nagisa 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.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1993-01-01
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The Strange Case of Yukio Mishima
Overview: A BBC television documentary on the life of Yukio Mishima that highlights the many known major aspects of his life and personality.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-12-03
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100 Years of Japanese Cinema
Overview: The story of the first century of Japanese cinema from the point of view of the controversial Japanese filmmaker Nagisa Ōshima.
Genres: Documentary History TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-09-01
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The Oshima Gang
Overview: Documentary about the making of Nagisa Oshima's 1983 film MERRY CHRISTMAS MR. LAWRENCE.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-12-31
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The Man Who Left His Soul on Film
Overview: Documentary about Nagisa Oshima. It includes interviews with Oshima, Donald Richie, Roger Pulvers and Paul Mayersberg
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-02-02
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Rahman: Father of Bengal
Overview: Documentary about the politician Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-01-06
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Level Five
Overview: Laura, 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.
Genres: Documentary War Science Fiction
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1997-02-19
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Scenes by the Sea: Takeshi Kitano
Overview: First 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'.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-05-05
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ΦIDEA
Overview: Documentary featuring Nagisa Ōshima and Masuaki Kiyota, a Uri Geller-esque psychic medium
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-07-18
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