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Nagisa Ōshima
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Japanese film director and screenwriter (1932–2013)
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Nagisa Ōshima (1932–2013) was a Japanese screenwriter, film director, film producer, and film editor. Born in Okayama, Japan, he was educated at Kyoto University and wrote in Japanese. His professional career began in 1953. He was married to Akiko Koyama.
Ōshima received the Cannes Best Director Award and the Sutherland Trophy. He was nominated for the Japan Academy Prize for Director of the Year, Picture of the Year, and Screenplay of the Year. He died of pneumonia in Fujisawa in 2013.
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Okayama, Japan
Nagisa Ōshima (大島 渚, Ōshima Nagisa; 31 March 1932 – 15 January 2013) was a Japanese filmmaker, writer, and left-wing activist best known for his fiction feature films, of which he directed 23 in a career spanning from 1959 to 1999. He is often 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…
Known for
- The Oshima Gang2010
- What's a Director?2006
- Devotion: A Film About Ogawa Productions — Himself2002
- Scenes by the Sea: Takeshi Kitano — Self2000
- Level Five — Self1997
- 100 Years of Japanese Cinema — Self - Narrator (voice)1995
- Akira Kurosawa: My Life in Cinema — Self1993
- Kyoto, My Mother's Place — Himself1991
- ΦIDEA1988
- The Strange Case of Yukio Mishima — Self1985
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1932-03-31 ) March 31, 1932, Tamano , Okayama , Empire of Japan
- Died
- January 15, 2013 (2013-01-15) (aged 80), Fujisawa, Kanagawa , Japan
- Education
- Kyoto University
- Occupations
- Film director writer activist
- Years active
- 1953-1999
- Notable work
- Cruel Story of Youth (1960) Night and Fog in Japan (1960) Death by Hanging (1968) The Ceremony (1971) In the Realm of the Senses (1976) Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (1983)
- Movement
- Japanese New Wave
- Spouse
- Akiko Koyama ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1960 )
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Japan
- Place of birth
- Tamano
- Place of death
- Fujisawa
- Spouse
- Akiko Koyama
- Occupation
- director
- Educated at
- Kyoto University
- Languages spoken
- Japanese
- Native language
- Japanese
- Image
- Nagisa Oshima at Cannes in 2000.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1932-03-31
- date of death
- 2013-01-15
- Commons category
- Nagisa Ōshima
- name in kana
- おおしま なぎさ
- cause of death
- pneumonia
- ethnic group
- Japanese people
- nominated for
- Japan Academy Prize for Picture of the Year
- manner of death
- natural causes
- name in native language
- 大島渚
- start of work period
- 1953-00-00
- related category
- Category:Films directed by Nagisa Ōshima
- writing language
- Japanese
- end of work period
- 1999-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
Nagisa Ōshima (大島 渚, Ōshima Nagisa; March 31, 1932 – January 15, 2013) 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 (Nūberu bāgu), alongside Shōhei Imamura. His film style was bold, innovative and provocative. Common themes in his work include youthful rebellion, class and racial discrimination and taboo sexuality.
His first major film was his second feature, Cruel Story of Youth (1960), one of the first Japanese New Wave films, a youth-oriented film with an earnest portrayal of the sexual lives and criminal activities of its young protagonists. And he came to greater international renown after Death By Hanging (1968), a film on the theme of capital punishment and anti-Korean sentiment, was shown at the Cannes Film Festival in 1968. His most controversial film is In the Realm of the Senses (1976), a sexually explicit film set in 1930s Japan.
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