Nagisa Ōshima Trailers
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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.
Most Popular Nagisa Ōshima Trailers
Total trailers found: 55
02 February 1983
Documentary about Nagisa Oshima. It includes interviews with Oshima, Donald Richie, Roger Pulvers ag
15 September 1976
A passionate telling of the story of Sada Abe, a woman whose affair with her master led to an obsessive and ultimately destructive sexual relationship.
18 July 1988
Documentary featuring Nagisa Ōshima and Masuaki Kiyota, a Uri Geller-esque psychic medium
08 June 1959
Comedy about the trials and tribulations of youth.
01 January 1993
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.
03 December 1985
A BBC television documentary on the life of Yukio Mishima that highlights the many known major aspects of his life and personality.
28 May 1983
Island of Java, 1942, during World War II. British Major Jack Celliers arrives at a Japanese prison camp, run by the strict Captain Yonoi.
02 February 1968
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.
06 September 1978
In a small Japanese village at the end of the 19th century, a rickshaw driver's wife takes on a much younger lover and the two conspire to murder him.
18 December 1999
Set during Japan's Shogun era, this film looks at life in a samurai compound where young warriors are trained in swordfighting.
22 November 1961
Towards the end of WWII, a black American pilot is captured and imprisoned by rural Japanese villagers, who await official instructions as to how to proceed with their 'catch'.
23 February 1967
Four sexually hungry high school students preparing for their university entrance exams meet up with an inebriated teacher singing bawdy drinking songs.
09 August 1960
In Osaka's slum, capricious folks without futures engage in pilfering, assault and robbery, prostitution, and the trading of ID cards and blood.
01 January 1981
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.
15 February 1969
Bored by the emptiness of everyday life, four students gather to play dangerous games in an apartment.
18 May 1971
Oshima’s magisterial epic, centering on the ambivalent surviving heir of the Sakurada clan, uses ritual and the microcosm of the traditional family to trace the rise and fall of militaristic Japan across several decades.
26 July 1969
A family of four lives off of scams in which they pretend to be injured by automobiles.
15 February 1967
The son of an assassinated feudal lord, in the Muromachi period, attempts to avenge his father's death and meets Kagemaru, a renegade ninja helping peasants and farmers rebel against Oda Nobunaga's regime, all depicted through an experimental form of filming pages from the original manga set to sound.
21 March 1962
In Tokugawa-era (1637) Shimabara, oppressed peasant Christians revolt against the shogunate with the aid of charismatic Christian rebel leader Shiro Amakusa.
30 March 1968
Three students spend their holidays at the seaside where they are mistaken for Koreans, a minority which is looked down on in Japan.
15 July 1966
Two young women must come to terms with the fact that a man they're deeply linked to is a murdering rapist.
04 November 2006
Works commemorating the 70th anniversary of the founding of Japan mapping Supervision Association
29 August 1965
After committing murder, businessman Atsushi is blackmailed into keeping a suitcase of embezzled money.
02 September 1967
A sex-obsessed woman, a suicidal man she meets on the street, and a gun-crazy wannabe gangster become trapped in an underground hideaway.
15 February 1969
In Tokyo's Shinjuku district, the lives of a young man prone to theft, a young woman he meets at a bookstore, and a kabuki actor intersect.
30 October 1976
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.
01 September 1995
The story of the first century of Japanese cinema from the point of view of the controversial Japanese filmmaker Nagisa Ōshima.
03 June 1960
A harsh young man seduces a freeloading young woman and eventually takes advantage of her knack for hitchhiking to rob middle-class men.
13 March 1959
Shochiku's up-and-coming stars take the stage in a series of short skits parodying popular films of the time.
09 October 1960
Long takes and a highly theatrical visual approach combine to form a tense and confrontational look at the decline of a socialist student activists' movement in Japan.
05 August 1972
14-year-old Sunaoko travels from Tokyo to Naha, Okinawa, with her father’s young fiancée Momoko in search of her half-brother whom she has never met.
27 June 1970
When a man chases down his stolen movie camera, the thief commits suicide by jumping off a building. But after the police take the camera as evidence, it becomes unclear if there was ever a thief in the first place.
31 December 1983
Documentary about the making of Nagisa Oshima's 1983 film MERRY CHRISTMAS MR. LAWRENCE.
22 October 1986
The wife of a British diplomat in Paris takes a chimpanzee as her lover.
06 January 1973
Documentary about the politician Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
01 January 1964
A promotional film for the automobile manufacturer Isuzu Jidosha directed by Nagisa Ôshima - an anthology of three stories.
11 December 1965
Constructed as an experimental montage of still photographs, "Diary of Yunbogi" reflects on poverty and historical responsibility through the imagined diary of a six-year-old Korean boy living in a South Korean slum.
17 November 1959
The lives of a teenager, his impoverished family, a wealthy young woman who buys a pigeon from him, and his caring teacher converge and consequently become more complicated.
20 December 1978
Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011.
08 June 1969
Nagisa Oshima's documentary details the rise of Chairman Mao during the revolution and shows the Communist Party's struggle and cultural upheaval.
05 July 1964
A chronicle of the eight-year battle against the construction of the Matsubara dam at Ogunimachi Shimouke, Asogun, district of Kumamoto.
16 August 1963
This documentary examines the plight of Korean veterans who were conscripted into the Japanese imperial army during World War II and later left destitute in postwar Japan.
03 September 1991
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.
05 May 2000
First major English-language documentary profile of the cult Japanese actor/director, Takeshi Kitano.
04 April 1972
The program investigates the secrets behind the success of Japan’s most famous baseball team, the Tokyo Yomiuri Kyojin-gun, affectionately known as the Giants.
01 January 1984
Documentary exploring why Belgian television doesn't invest more money in Belgian cinema as is the case in e.
28 October 1972
"Goze" drawn by painter Shinichi Saito. One of the few remaining blind women in the snowy Niigata region, a traveling entertainer who played the shamisen and sang, visited villages and left a record of living on the mercy of others.
01 January 1969
An animated pilot film for Band of Ninja released to the public over three decades later on The Legend of Ninja Kamui DVD volume 7.
19 February 1997
Laura, a French programmer, inherits the task of creating a game about the World War II Battle of Okinawa.
26 January 2002
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.
30 July 2016
Franck Dion, director of Une tête disparaît (A Head Disappears), revisits Nagisa Oshima's Empire of the Senses in a one-minute animated film.
