Director

Nagisa Ōshima

Directing: 1959 — 1999 · 19 films
Lived: 31 March 1932 — d. 2013
From: Okayama, Japan

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.

Career Signature

How Nagisa Ōshima’s filmography reads.

Five of Perfery’s 75 vibes, averaged across every film they directed.

heavy emotional

emotionally restrained

conversation starter

naturalistic performance

bittersweet

Tonal kin

Rainer Werner Fassbinder28 films

Aleksei Balabanov12 films

James Franco10 films

Marco Bellocchio14 films

Luis Buñuel29 films

Yasuzō Masumura12 films

Jerzy Skolimowski11 films

Jean-Claude Brisseau9 films

How Nagisa Ōshima’s filmography reads.

Filmography

Taboo

Max My Love

Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence

Empire of Passion

In the Realm of the Senses

The Ceremony

The Man Who Left His Will on Film

Boy

Diary of a Shinjuku Thief

Death by Hanging

Three Resurrected Drunkards

Japanese Summer: Double Suicide

Sing a Song of Sex

Violence at Noon

Pleasures of the Flesh

Cruel Story of Youth

Night and Fog in Japan

The Sun's Burial

Street of Love and Hope