Nagisa Oshima and the struggle for a radical cinema

Document source:

Harvard Film Archive

Publication date:

2008 Nov

Document language:

English

Document type:

program note

Number of pages:

4

Source pagination:

12-15

Document name subject:

Nagisa Oshima, Seijun Suzuki, Koji Wakamatsu, and Yoshishige Yoshida

Document contains:

production co

Related films:

• Ai to kibo no machi (A town of love and hope) — Oshima, Nagisa — Japan — 1959
• Nihon no yoru to kiri (Night and fog in Japan) — Oshima, Nagisa — Japan — 1960
• Seishun zankoku monogatari (Cruel story of youth) — Oshima, Nagisa — Japan — 1960
• Taiyo no hakaba (The sun's burial) — Oshima, Nagisa — Japan — 1960
• Shiiku (The catch) — Oshima, Nagisa — Japan — 1961
• Amakusa shiro tokisada (Shiro Amakusa, the Christian rebel) — Oshima, Nagisa — Japan — 1962
• Yunbogi no nikki (Yunbogi's diary) — Oshima, Nagisa — Japan — 1965
• Etsuraku (The pleasures of the flesh) — Oshima, Nagisa — Japan — 1965
• Hakuchu no torima (Violence at noon) — Oshima, Nagisa — Japan — 1966
• Ninja bugei-cho (Band of Ninja) — Oshima, Nagisa — Japan — 1967
• Muri shinju: nihon no natsu (Japanese summer: double suicide) — Oshima, Nagisa — Japan — 1967
• Koshikei (Death by hanging) — Oshima, Nagisa — Japan — 1968
• Shinjuku dorobo nikki (Diary of a Shinjuku burglar) — Oshima, Nagisa — Japan — 1968
• Kaette kita yopparai (Three resurrected drunkards) — Oshima, Nagisa — Japan — 1968
• Shonen (Boy) — Oshima, Nagisa — Japan — 1969
• Tokyo senso sengo hiwa (He died after the war) — Oshima, Nagisa — Japan — 1970
• Gishiki (The ceremony) — Oshima, Nagisa — Japan — 1971
• Natsu no imoto (Dear summer sister) — Oshima, Nagisa — Japan — 1972
• Ai no koriida (In the realm of the senses) — Oshima, Nagisa — Japan; France — 1976
• Ai no borei (Empire of passion) — Oshima, Nagisa — Japan; France — 1978
• Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence — Oshima, Nagisa — Japan; New Zealand; Great Britain — 1983
• Max, mon amour (Max my love) — Oshima, Nagisa — France; United States — 1986
• Kyoto, my mother's place — Oshima, Nagisa — No country known — 1991
• Gohatto (Taboo) — Oshima, Nagisa — Great Britain; France; Japan — 1999

Film country(ies):

France, Great Britain, Japan, New Zealand, and United States

Film language(s):

English, French, and Japanese

Film production company:

Antenne 2, Argos Films, Art Theatre Guild of Japan Co. Ltd., Asahi National Broadcasting Company, BAC Films, BS Asahi, Cineventure Productions London, Eisei Gekijo Co., Ltd., Greenwich Film Production S.A., Imagica Corp., Kadokawa Shoten Publishing Co. Ltd., National Film Trustees, Oshima Productions, Palace Pictures, Recorded Picture Company, Shibata Organisation Incorporated, Shochiku Kabushiki Kaisha, Sozosha, Studio Canal +, Taiho, and Toei Company Ltd.

Film genre(s):

Adaptation, Animation, Biographical, Comedy, Crime, Documentary, Drama, Erotic, Family, Feature, Historical, Juvenile delinquency, Martial arts, Melodrama, Romance, Short, Social problem, War, Women, and Youth

Film subject(s):

• Abe, Sada, 1905- -- Biography -- Drama
• Abused children -- Japan -- Drama
• Accident victims -- Japan -- Drama
• Adultery -- Japan -- Drama
• African American soldiers -- Japan -- Drama
• Amakusa, Shiro, 1621 or 2-1638 -- Drama
• Amateur films -- Japan -- Drama
• Apes -- Drama
• Bestiality -- Drama
• Boys -- Japan -- Drama
• Boys -- Korea -- Drama
• British -- Indonesia -- Java -- Drama
• British -- Japan -- Drama
• Brothers and sisters -- Japan -- Drama
• Capital punishment -- Japan -- Drama
• Child labor -- Korea -- Drama
• Children -- Korea -- Drama
• Chimpanzees -- Drama
• Crime -- Japan -- Drama
• Culture conflict -- Japan -- Drama
• Diaries -- Korea -- Drama
• Executions and executioners -- Japan -- Drama
• Extortion -- Japan -- Drama
• Family life -- Japan -- Drama
• Feudalism -- Japan -- Drama
• Gangs -- Japan -- Drama
• Gangs -- Japan -- Osaka -- Drama
• Ghosts -- Japan -- Drama
• Hanging -- Japan -- Drama
• Homosexuality -- Japan -- Drama
• Human-animal relationships -- France -- Drama
• Husband and wife -- France -- Drama
• Husband and wife -- Japan -- Drama
• Ii, Yunbogi -- Film and video adaptations
• Incest -- Japan -- Drama
• Japan -- History -- 1185-1600 -- Drama
• Japan -- History -- 1941-1945 -- Drama
• Japan -- History -- 1945- -- Drama
• Japan -- History -- 19th century -- Drama
• Japan -- History -- Attempted Mongol invasions, 1274-1281 -- Drama
• Japan -- History -- Kamakura period, 1185-1333 -- Drama
• Japan -- History -- Shimabara Uprising, 1637-1638 -- Drama
• Japan -- Politics and government -- Drama
• Japan -- Relations -- Great Britain -- Drama
• Japan -- Relations -- Korea -- Drama
• Japan -- Social conditions -- 1945- -- Drama
• Japan -- Social conditions -- 1960-1969 -- Drama
• Japan -- Social conditions -- Drama
• Justice, Administration of -- Japan -- Drama
• Juvenile delinquents -- Japan -- Drama
• Juvenile delinquents -- Japan -- Osaka -- Drama
• Korea -- Relations -- Japan -- Drama
• Korea -- Social conditions -- Drama
• Koreans -- Japan -- Drama
• Koreans -- Japan -- Social conditions -- Drama
• Male friendship -- Japan -- Drama
• Man-woman relationships -- Japan -- Drama
• Martial arts -- Japan -- Drama
• Martyrs -- Japan -- Nagasaki-ken -- Drama
• Mistaken identity -- Japan -- Drama
• Money -- Japan -- Drama
• Motion pictures -- Production and direction -- Japan -- Drama
• Murder -- Investigation -- Japan -- Drama
• Murder -- Japan -- Drama
• Murderers -- Japan -- Drama
• Nagasaki-ken (Japan) -- History -- Drama
• Namura, Itoko -- Film and video adaptations
• Ninja -- Japan -- Drama
• Oe, Kenzaburo, 1935- -- Film and video adaptations
• Okinawa Island (Japan) -- Relations -- Japan -- Drama
• Osaka (Japan) -- Social conditions -- Drama
• Parent and child -- Japan -- Drama
• Persecution -- Japan -- Nagasaki-ken -- Drama
• Pigeons -- Japan -- Drama
• Political activists -- Japan -- Drama
• Poor children -- Korea -- Drama
• Prejudices -- Japan -- Drama
• Prisoners of war -- Indonesia -- Java -- Drama
• Prisoners of war -- Japan -- Drama
• Prostitutes -- Japan -- Biography -- Drama
• Prostitutes -- Japan -- Drama
• Prostitutes -- Japan -- Osaka -- Drama
• Racism -- Japan -- Drama
• Rape victims -- Japan -- Drama
• Rapists -- Japan -- Drama
• Samurai -- Japan -- 19th century -- Drama
• Sex -- Japan -- Drama
• Sex addiction -- Japan -- Drama
• Sex crimes -- Japan -- Drama
• Sex crimes -- Japan -- History -- Drama
• Sex offenders -- Japan -- Drama
• Shiba, Ryotaro, 1923- . Maegami no sozaburo -- Film and video adaptations
• Shiba, Ryotaro, 1923- . Sanjogawara ranjin -- Film and video adaptations
• Shiba, Ryotaro, 1923- . Shinsengumi keppuroku -- Film and video adaptations
• Shinjuku-ku (Tokyo, Japan) -- Social life and customs -- Drama
• Shirato, Sanpei, 1932- -- Film and video adaptations
• Slums -- Japan -- Osaka -- Social conditions -- Drama
• Social conflict -- Japan -- Drama
• Student movements -- Japan -- Drama
• Students -- Japan -- Drama
• Suicidal behavior -- Japan -- Drama
• Suicide -- Japan -- Drama
• Suicide pacts -- Japan -- Drama
• Suicide victims -- Japan -- Drama
• Swindlers and swindling -- Japan -- Drama
• Swordplay -- Japan -- Drama
• Takeda, Taijun, 1912-1976. Hakuchu no torima -- Film and video adaptations
• Teenagers -- Japan -- Drama
• Teenagers -- Japan -- Sexual behavior -- Drama
• Thieves -- Japan -- Drama
• Tokyo (Japan) -- Social life and customs -- Drama
• Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Japan -- Drama
• Van der Post, Laurens. Seed and the sower -- Film and video adaptations
• Villages -- Japan -- Drama
• Wealth -- Psychological aspects -- Japan -- Drama
• Women -- Crimes against -- Japan -- Drama
• Women murderers -- Japan -- Biography -- Drama
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Indonesia -- Java -- Drama
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Japan -- Drama
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Japanese -- Drama
• Young men -- Japan -- Attitudes -- Drama
• Young men -- Japan -- Drama
• Young men -- Japan -- Sexual behavior -- Drama
• Youth -- Japan -- Drama
• Youth -- Japan -- Osaka -- Drama
• Youth -- Japan -- Sexual behavior -- Drama

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