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Nagisa Ōshima
Deceased

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Life & Death

Died aged 80
Also known as大島 渚, Nagisa Ooshima, Нагиса Осима, Nagisa ÔshimaGenderMaleNationalityJapanBorn31/03/1932Born inOkayama, JapanDied15/01/2013 (aged 80)Died inFujisawaCausepneumoniaWikidataQ55403 ↗TMDb#46230 ↗

Nagisa Ōshima was a Japanese film director, writer, and left-wing activist who is best known for his fiction films, of which he directed 23 features in a career spanning from 1959 to 1999. He is regarded as one of the greatest Japanese directors of all time, and as one of the most important figures of the Japanese New Wave, alongside Shōhei Imamura. His film style was bold, innovative and provocative.

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Filmography17 titles

YearTitleCharacterAge at
release
2010The Oshima GangMovie—78
2006What's a Director?Movie—74
1995BeRLiNMovie—63
1995100 Years of Japanese CinemaMovieSelf - Narrator (voice)63
1993Akira Kurosawa: My Life in CinemaMovieSelf61
1991Kyoto, My Mother's PlaceMovieHimself59
1988ΦIDEAMovie—56
1985The Strange Case of Yukio MishimaMovieSelf53
1983The Man Who Left His Soul on FilmMovie—51
1983The Oshima GangMovieSelf51
1981A Visit to Ogawa ProductionsMovieHimself49
1978CinématonMovieN°80646
1977Yokoi and His Twenty-Eight Years of Secret Life on GuamMovieSelf - Interviewer45
1976Yakuza GraveyardMovieChief Omura44
1976A Life of MaoMovie—44
1973Rahman: Father of BengalMovieInterviewer41
1968Death by HangingMovieNarrator (voice)36