Nagisa Ōshima
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
Movie
Death by Hanging
as Narrator (voice)
1968
Movie
Yakuza Graveyard
as Chief Omura
1976
Movie
Level Five
as Self
1997
Movie
100 Years of Japanese Cinema
as Self - Narrator (voice)
1995
Movie
Cinématon
as N°806
1978
Movie
The Strange Case of Yukio Mishima
as Self
1985
Movie
Akira Kurosawa: My Life in Cinema
as Self
1993
Movie
Kyoto, My Mother's Place
as Himself
1991
Movie
Scenes by the Sea: Takeshi Kitano
as Self
2000
Movie
A Life of Mao
1976
Movie
Devotion: A Film About Ogawa Productions
as Himself
2002
Movie
Rahman: Father of Bengal
as Interviewer
1973
Movie
Yokoi and His Twenty-Eight Years of Secret Life on Guam
as Self - Interviewer
1977
Movie
De droomproducenten
as Self
1984
Movie
What's a Director?
2006
Movie
A Visit to Ogawa Productions
as Himself
1981
Movie
The Oshima Gang
2010
Movie
The Oshima Gang
as Self
1983
Movie
The Man Who Left His Soul on Film
1983
Movie
ΦIDEA
1988
Crew
Movie
In the Realm of the Senses
Director
1976
Movie
Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence
Screenplay
1983
Movie
Empire of Passion
Writer
1978
Movie
Taboo
Director
1999
Movie
Death by Hanging
Director
1968
Movie
Cruel Story of Youth
Director
1960
Movie
Boy
Director
1969
Movie
The Ceremony
Director
1971
Movie
Violence at Noon
Director
1966
Movie
Max My Love
Director
1986
Movie
The Man Who Left His Will on Film
Director
1970
Movie
Pleasures of the Flesh
Director
1965