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Nagisa Ōshima is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter, Producer, Editor and Thanks Japonais born on 31 march 1932 at Kyoto (Japon)

Nagisa Ōshima

Nagisa Ōshima
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Birth name 大島 渚Ōshima Nagisa
Nationality Japon
Birth 31 march 1932 at Kyoto (Japon)
Death 15 january 2013 (at 80 years)
Awards Best Director Award

Nagisa Oshima (大島 渚, Ōshima Nagisa , March 31, 1932 – January 15, 2013) was a Japanese film director and screenwriter. His films include In the Realm of the Senses and Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence.

Biography

Nagisa Ōshima passe sa jeunesse à Kyoto, auprès de sa sœur cadette et de sa mère, qui les élève seule après le décès de son époux en 1938. Accepté à l'université de Kyoto, il en sort diplômé en droit et politique en 1954. Cette même année il décide de se consacrer au cinéma après avoir assisté à une projection du film Le jardin des femmes de Keisuke Kinoshita. Il est reçu au concours d'assistant de réalisation aux studios de la Shōchiku d'Ōfuna jusqu'en 1959, auprès notamment, de Masaki Kobayashi, Hideo Ōba ou encore Yoshitarō Nomura. Il publie durant cette période des critiques cinématographiques qu'il axe sur la « nouvelle vague » franco-polonaise, la revue des assistants de la Shōchiku publie également onze scénarios originaux signés de sa main. Toujours en 1959, soutenu par la compagnie, il tourne son premier film, Une ville d'amour et d'espoir ou le Garçon vendeur de colombes. Deux autres lui succèdent immédiatement : Contes cruels de la jeunesse (qui sort en salle au moment où des étudiants et des travailleurs encerclent la Diète pour protester contre la ratification du traité de sécurité américano-japonais) et l'Enterrement du soleil (1960).

Grâce à un style et des sujets qui amènent un vent de fraîcheur et de renouveau, ces films lui permettent de s'inscrire comme chef de file de la « nouvelle vague » (terme qu'il trouve ridicule) de la Shōchiku avec Masahiro Shinoda et Yoshishige Yoshida. En 1960, son film Nuit et brouillard du Japon fait scandale en traitant du renouvellement du traité américano-japonais, de 1960 de ses nombreux impacts politiques et des événements violents qui en découlèrent. Tourné presque à l'insu de la compagnie, celle-ci le retirera de l'affiche après quatre jours. C'est à la suite de ces événements qu'Ōshima quittera la compagnie pour se lancer dans la production indépendante et dans des activités littéraires variées. En 1961 ses premières productions personnelles démarrent avec le Piège / une Bête à nourrir d'après l'œuvre éponyme de Kenzaburō Ōe.


L'Empire des sens
À la fin de l'été 1972, en rentrant du Festival de Venise, Ōshima fait étape à Paris où le producteur Anatole Dauman lui propose de financer la réalisation d'un film érotique. Sitôt rentré au Japon, Nagisa Ōshima commence la préparation du tournage de Corrida de l'amour (qui prendra en France pour titre L'Empire des sens) racontant l'histoire véridique d'une prostituée nommée Sada Abe. À sa sortie, en 1976, le film fait scandale et est censuré par les autorités japonaises. Mais grâce à Anatole Dauman, il est présenté au Festival de Cannes 1976, lors de la Quinzaine des réalisateurs ; puis est distribué dans le monde entier où il obtient un très grand succès. Pourtant, en juillet 1976, la police perquisitionne dans les locaux de la maison d'édition San'ichi shobo et au domicile du cinéaste. Le livre L'Empire des Sens, comprenant le scénario du film et plusieurs photos de plateau, est saisi. L'éditeur Takemura Ajime et Nagisa Ōshima, accusés d'obscénité en vertu de l'article 175 du code pénal japonais, sont poursuivis par le Parquet. En décembre 1979, après 3 ans de procédures et 23 audiences, les deux accusés sont finalement relaxés.

En 1999, l'année de sortie de son dernier film, Tabou (Gohatto), Ōshima affirme mettre fin à sa carrière pour cause de paralysie. Hospitalisé en 2012, il meurt d'une infection pulmonaire dans la banlieue de Tokyo, à l'hôpital de Fujisawa, le 15 janvier 2013. Il laisse dans son sillage une œuvre de quelques 50 courts-métrages, longs-métrages et téléfilms.

Best films

Man of Steel (2013)
(Thanks)
Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (1983)
(Director)
In the Realm of the Senses (1976)
(Director)

Usually with

Kei Satō
Kei Satō
(16 films)
Masao Adachi
Masao Adachi
(3 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Nagisa Ōshima (27 films)

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Actor

Level Five
Level Five (1997)
, 1h46
Directed by Chris Marker
Origin France
Genres Science fiction, War, Documentary, Romance
Themes Films about computing, Jeu, Documentary films about war, Documentary films about historical events, Films about video games, Cyberpunk films, Anticipation
Actors Catherine Belkhodja, Chris Marker, Nagisa Ōshima
Roles Self
Rating69% 3.48483.48483.48483.48483.4848
Kenji Tokitsu, expert en sports de combat et auteur de la Voix du do, et Nagisa Oshima, cinéaste, sont interviewés. (partie documentaire du film).
Cinématon
Cinématon (1978)

Directed by Gérard Courant
Genres Documentary
Actors Fernando Arrabal, Raphaël Bassan, Yann Beauvais, Roberto Benigni, Juliet Berto, Sandrine Bonnaire
Roles N°806
Rating60% 3.032623.032623.032623.032623.03262
Cinématon est une série cinématographique de portraits filmés montrant une personnalité des arts, de la culture ou du spectacle, en un seul gros plan fixe et muet de 3 minutes et demie, dans lesquels elle est libre de faire ce qu'elle veut.
Yakuza Graveyard, 1h32
Directed by Kinji Fukasaku
Genres Drama, Action, Crime
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Yakuza films, Gangster films
Actors Meiko Kaji, Tetsuya Watari (渡 哲也), Nagisa Ōshima, Seizō Fukumoto, Takuzo Kawatani, Hideo Murota
Roles Muramoto
Rating70% 3.534723.534723.534723.534723.53472
A police investigator cracks down on yakuza business, but once he realizes the police are in negotiations with certain factions, he sides with his own syndicate of choice.
Death by Hanging, 1h57
Directed by Nagisa Ōshima
Origin Japon
Genres Drama, Comedy, Crime
Themes Prison films, Films about capital punishment
Actors Kei Satō, Nagisa Ōshima, Masao Adachi
Roles Narrator (voice)
Rating74% 3.7441753.7441753.7441753.7441753.744175
A documentary-like opening introduces a death chamber where an execution is about to take place. Inexplicably, the man to be executed, an ethnic Korean known only as R, survives hanging but loses his memory. The officials who witness the hanging debate how to proceed, as the law could be interpreted as forbidding execution of an individual who does not recognize their crime and its punishment.

Director

Taboo
Taboo (1999)
, 1h40
Directed by Nagisa Ōshima
Origin Japon
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Historical
Themes Seafaring films, Films about sexuality, Sports films, Transport films, LGBT-related films, Martial arts films, Samurai films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Ryūhei Matsuda, Takeshi Kitano, Tadanobu Asano, Tomorowo Taguchi, Shinji Takeda, Susumu Terajima
Rating67% 3.3974053.3974053.3974053.3974053.397405
At the start of the movie, the young and handsome Kanō Sōzaburō (Ryuhei Matsuda) is admitted to the Shinsengumi, an elite samurai group led by Kondō Isami (Yoichi Sai) that seeks to defend the Tokugawa shogunate against reformist forces. He is a very skilled swordsman, but it is his appearance that makes many of the others in the (strictly male) group, both students and superiors, attracted to him, creating tension within the group of people vying for Kanō's affections.
Max My Love, 1h38
Directed by Nagisa Ōshima
Origin France
Genres Comedy, Comedy-drama
Actors Charlotte Rampling, Anthony Higgins, Victoria Abril, Fabrice Luchini, Anne-Marie Besse, Milena Vukotic
Rating60% 3.001763.001763.001763.001763.00176
Billed on the DVD cover as "the greatest ape romance since King Kong", Max, My Love is the story of a British diplomat in France, Peter Jones (Anthony Higgins), whose wife Margaret (Charlotte Rampling) takes a chimpanzee, Max, for her lover.
Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence, 2h3
Directed by Nagisa Ōshima
Origin Japon
Genres Drama, War, Historical
Themes Seafaring films, Christmas films, Prison films, Films about sexuality, Transport films, LGBT-related films, Political films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors David Bowie, Tom Conti, Ryūichi Sakamoto, Takeshi Kitano, Jack Thompson, Yūya Uchida
Rating72% 3.600483.600483.600483.600483.60048
The film deals with the relationships among four men in a Japanese prisoner of war camp during the Second World War — Major Jack Celliers (Bowie), a rebellious New Zealander with a guilty secret from his youth; Captain Yonoi (Sakamoto), the young camp commandant; Lieutenant Colonel John Lawrence (Conti), a British officer who has lived in Japan and speaks Japanese fluently; and Sergeant Hara (Takeshi), who is seemingly brutal and yet humane in some ways and with whom Lawrence develops a peculiar friendship.
Empire of Passion, 1h44
Directed by Nagisa Ōshima
Origin Japon
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality
Actors Kazuko Yoshiyuki, Tatsuya Fuji, Takahiro Tamura, Takuzo Kawatani, Tatsuya Kimura, Taiji Tonoyama
Rating69% 3.498363.498363.498363.498363.49836
The plot revolves around a young man who has an affair with an older woman. He is very jealous of her husband and decides that they should kill him. One night, after the husband had plenty of shouchu to drink and was in bed, they strangle him and dump his body down a well. To avert any suspicions, she pretends her husband has gone off to Tokyo to work. For three years the wife and her lover secretly see each other. Finally, suspicions become very strong and people begin to gossip. To make matters worse, her husband's ghost begins to haunt her and the law arrives to investigate her husband's disappearance.
In the Realm of the Senses, 1h42
Directed by Nagisa Ōshima
Origin Japon
Genres Drama, Erotic, Thriller, Documentary, Horror, Historical, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Films about sexuality, Transport films, Bisexuality-related films, Erotic films, BDSM in films, LGBT-related films, Films about prostitution, Erotic thriller films, LGBT-related film
Actors Tatsuya Fuji, Eiko Matsuda, Taiji Tonoyama
Rating65% 3.2997753.2997753.2997753.2997753.299775
In 1936 Tokyo, Sada Abe (Eiko Matsuda) is a former prostitute who now works as a maid in a hotel. The hotel's owner, Kichizo Ishida (Tatsuya Fuji), molests her, and the two begin an intense affair that consists of sexual experiments and various self-indulgences. Ishida leaves his wife to pursue his affair with Sada. Sada becomes increasingly possessive and jealous of Ishida, and Ishida more eager to please her. Their mutual obsession escalates to the point where Ishida finds she is most excited by strangling him during lovemaking, and he is killed in this fashion. Sada then severs his penis, walks around with it inside her for several days, and writes, "Sada Kichi the two of us forever," in blood on his chest.
Dear Summer Sister, 1h36
Directed by Nagisa Ōshima
Origin Japon
Genres Drama, Action
Actors Taiji Tonoyama, Lily, Kei Satō
Rating62% 3.1407353.1407353.1407353.1407353.140735
Une jeune Japonaise, accompagnée de sa future belle-mère, débarque à Okinawa à la recherche son frère.
The Ceremony, 2h3
Directed by Nagisa Ōshima
Origin Japon
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama
Actors Kei Satō, Nobuko Otowa, Atsuko Kaku, Atsuo Nakamura, Taiji Tonoyama, Eitarō Ozawa
Rating72% 3.6382653.6382653.6382653.6382653.638265
The film begins with Masuo Sakurada receiving a telegram from his cousin Terumichi. He is traveling with his cousin Ritsuko to check out his cabin and see if the telegram is true. Masuo has a flashback to the ceremony on the first anniversary of his father's death, after he and his mother repatriated to Japan from Manchuria. Because his younger brother died before they returned from Manchuria, Masuo is expected to live for two sons.
The Man Who Left His Will on Film, 1h34
Directed by Nagisa Ōshima
Origin Japon
Genres Drama, Action
Actors Tomoyo Oshima
Rating69% 3.4797953.4797953.4797953.4797953.479795
Jeune activiste au sein d'une cellule de cinéma militant, Motoki voit un de ses camarades se jeter du haut d'un immeuble. Pourtant, des doutes apparaissent très vite sur l'identité du "suicidé", dont même la mort semble hypothétique... Seules les images qu'il était en train de tourner semblent à même d'éclaircir cette énigme...
Diary of a Shinjuku Thief, 1h36
Directed by Nagisa Ōshima
Origin Japon
Genres Drama, Comedy, Adventure
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Kei Satō, Jūrō Kara, Akaji Maro
Rating61% 3.084523.084523.084523.084523.08452
The film centers around Birdie, a young Japanese book thief who is caught by a store clerk named Umeko. As their encounters grow increasingly fraught with tension and desire, the two become lovers and begin committing thefts together.
Boy
Boy (1969)
, 1h37
Directed by Nagisa Ōshima
Origin Japon
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Films about children
Rating74% 3.741013.741013.741013.741013.74101
Based on real events reported in Japanese newspapers in 1966 Boy follows the title character, Toshio Omura, across Japan, as he is forced to participate in a dangerous scam to support his dysfunctional family. Toshio's father, Takeo Omura, is an abusive, lazy veteran, who forces his wife, the boy's stepmother, Takeko Tamiguchi, to feign being hit by cars in order to shake down the motorists. When his wife is unable to perform the scam, Toshio is enlisted. The boy's confused perspective of the scams and his chaotic family life are vividly captured in precisely edited sequences. As marital strife, mounting abuse, and continual moving take their toll, the boy tries to escape, either by running away on trains, or by retreating into a sci-fi fantasy he has constructed for his little brother and himself. Finally, in snowy Hokkaidō, the law finally catches up when the little brother unwittingly causes a fatal car accident. Although traumatized, Toshio tries to help his family elude capture in the final sequence, presented in documentary fashion, describing their arrest.
Three Resurrected Drunkards, 1h20
Directed by Nagisa Ōshima
Origin Japon
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about racism
Actors Kei Satō, Mako Midori, Masao Adachi, Taiji Tonoyama
Rating63% 3.191813.191813.191813.191813.19181
Trois adolescents japonais sont victimes de déserteurs coréens, qui subtilisent les vêtements des jeunes garçons et les remplacent par leurs uniformes. Au cours de leurs pérégrinations, les trois amis tentent d'échapper à la fois aux déserteurs, aux habitants, ainsi qu'à la police de leur pays. Mais l'un d'entre eux tombe amoureux...