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Nagisa Ōshima

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Born: March 31, 1932 in Okayama, Japan

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...

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Yakuza Graveyard
6.6
Yakuza Graveyard1976
Death by Hanging
7.4
Death by Hanging1968
What's a Director?
What's a Director?2006
Cinématon
4.3
Cinématon1978
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100 Years of Japanese Cinema
5.8
100 Years of Japanese Cinema1995
The Strange Case of Yukio Mishima
3.5
The Strange Case of Yukio Mishima1985
A Visit to Ogawa Productions
A Visit to Ogawa Productions1981
Level Five
6.0
Level Five1997
Yokoi and His Twenty-Eight Years of Secret Life on Guam
Yokoi and His Twenty-Eight Years of Secret Life on Guam1977
Rahman: Father of Bengal
Rahman: Father of Bengal1973
The Oshima Gang
The Oshima Gang1983
Akira Kurosawa: My Life in Cinema
7.7
Akira Kurosawa: My Life in Cinema1993
ΦIDEA
ΦIDEA1988
The Man Who Left His Soul on Film
The Man Who Left His Soul on Film1983
Scenes by the Sea: Takeshi Kitano
7.0
Scenes by the Sea: Takeshi Kitano2000
Devotion: A Film About Ogawa Productions
Devotion: A Film About Ogawa Productions2002
The Oshima Gang
The Oshima Gang2010
Kyoto, My Mother's Place
6.0
Kyoto, My Mother's Place1991
A Life of Mao
A Life of Mao1976