The Humanity of Nagisa Oshima

Nagisa Oshima is a severely neglected Japanese filmmaker in North America. Oshima is probably most widely recognized for his controversial Japanese/French co-production "In The Realm of The Senses", produced in 1974, and 1983's "Merry Christmas Mr.Lawrence", starring David Bowie and a young Takeshi Kitano. These three trailers reflect what is perhaps Nagisa Oshima's most fruitful and radical period of filmmaking- the late 1960's. Along with Hiroshi Teshigahara and Shohei Imamura, he is a Japanese favorite of mine.




1968's "Death By Hanging"



1969's "Boy"



1970's "The Man Who Left His Will On Film"

-James