“Stop using the term ‘New Wave’ once and for all! Evaluate each film on its own merits!” protested a critic-turned-auteur from Kyoto named Nagisa Oshima in an angry 1960 denunciation of both Shochiku ...

An ardent socialist, he embraced in his early career youth themes and scripts critical of the Japanese establishment, which he regarded as irredeemably conservative. He was an early champion of the ...

He might be any lonely kid you’d catch watching cars whiz by on a busy road or playing a solo game of hide-and-seek in an abandoned lot. But the “boy” of Nagisa Oshima’s literally ...

TOKYO (AP) — Nagisa Oshima, a Japanese director internationally acclaimed for his films “Empire of Passion” and “In the Realm of the Senses,” has died of pneumonia. He was 80. His office, Oshima ...

Tokio, 15 ene (EFE).Tokio, 15 ene (EFE). — El cineasta japonés Nagisa Oshima, director de películas como “El imperio de los sentidos” o “Feliz Navidad, Mr. Lawrence”, ha fallecido a los 80 años en un ...

Nagisa Oshima, one of the Young Turks who launched Japanese cinema’s New Wave in the 1950s and later became the most internationally prominent Japanese helmer of his generation, helming the erotic ...

Nagisa Oshima has always had a kamikaze streak. The 77-year-old Japanese director's filmography counts over 25 features, and each serves to contradict the next. "After every film," he says, "I am ...

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Director Nagisa Oshima often quoted the phrase “the republic of the cinema” as if film was a country and he one of its citizens. He combined the very best stalwart Japanese qualities with a forthright ...

In a sense, it is unfortunate that the Japanese director Nagisa Oshima, who has died aged 80, was more infamous than famous, due to one film, In the Realm of the Senses (also known as Ai No Corrida, ...