In the realm of Oshima: the films of Japanese master Nagisa Oshima

Document author(s):

James Quandt

Document source:

Cinematheque Ontario/a division of Toronto International Film Festival Group

Document language:

English

Document type:

program note

Number of pages:

Source pagination:

27-39

Document name subject:

Nagisa Oshima

Document contains:

bibliography and 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
Nihon shunka-ko (A treatise on Japanese bawdy songs) — 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
100 years of Japanese cinema — Oshima, Nagisa — Japan — 1994
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 +, TV Asahi, 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):