Nagisa Ōshima Movies

Long takes and a highly theatrical visual approach combine to form a tense and confrontational look at the decline of a socialist student activists'...

Nagisa Oshima's documentary details the rise of Chairman Mao during the revolution and shows the Communist Party's struggle and cultural upheaval....

When a man chases down his stolen movie camera, the thief commits suicide by jumping off a building. But after the police take the camera as...

Documentary about the politician Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.

Shochiku's up-and-coming stars take the stage in a series of short skits parodying popular films of the time.

Three students spend their holidays at the seaside where they are mistaken for Koreans, a minority which is looked down on in Japan. The action...

In Tokugawa-era (1637) Shimabara, oppressed peasant Christians revolt against the shogunate with the aid of charismatic Christian rebel leader Shiro...

A promotional film for the automobile manufacturer Isuzu Jidosha directed by Nagisa Ôshima - an anthology of three stories.

A family of four lives off of scams in which they pretend to be injured by automobiles.

In Osaka's slum, capricious folks without futures engage in pilfering, assault and robbery, prostitution, and the trading of ID cards and blood.

A BBC television documentary on the life of Yukio Mishima that highlights the many known major aspects of his life and personality.

Bored by the emptiness of everyday life, four students gather to play dangerous games in an apartment.

After committing murder, businessman Atsushi is blackmailed into keeping a suitcase of embezzled money. What follows is a descent into lustful,...

The story of the first century of Japanese cinema from the point of view of the controversial Japanese filmmaker Nagisa Ōshima.

A chronicle of the eight-year battle against the construction of the Matsubara dam at Ogunimachi Shimouke, Asogun, district of Kumamoto. Tomoyuki...

Oshima exposes the fact that many wounded soldiers cannot receive compensation from the Japanese government because of their Korean nationality,...

This ethereal montage of still images with darkly somber undertones, Yunbogi’s Diary is based on photographs that Oshima took during his...

Nagisa Oshima interviews Akira Kurosawa, leading him to share his thoughts about filmmaking, his life and works, and numerous anecdotes relating to...

The program investigates the secrets behind the success of Japan’s most famous baseball team, the Tokyo Yomiuri Kyojin-gun, affectionately...