Nagisa Ōshima

Towards the end of the Second World War, a downed U.S. pilot is captured and imprisoned by rural Japanese villagers, who await official ...

Based on a true story set in pre-war Japan, a man and one of his servants begin a torrid affair. Their desire becomes a sexual obsession so ...

A budding gangster enthralls a freeloading young woman, soon taking advantage of her knack for hitch-hiking to rob middle-class, middle-aged men. ...

A young man 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 ...

Nagisa Oshima’s most personal film is a reflection by the director on his own disillusionment with the revolutionary student movement of ...

Trying to make ends meet this way, Masuo also receives help from his teacher who is trying to land him a good job and he also falls under the ...

The son of an assassinated feudal lord, in the Muromachi period, attempts to avenge his father’s death and meets Kagemaru, a renegade ninja ...

Island of Java, 1942, during World War II. British Major Jack Celliers arrives at a Japanese prison camp, run by the strict Captain Yonoi. ...

A family of four lives off of scams in which they pretend to be injured by automobiles. After suffering an injury during the war, the father ...

In Osaka’s slum, youths without futures engage in pilfering, assault and robbery, prostitution, and the buying and selling of identity ...

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 ...

Hakuchu no Torima is the portrayal of a violent rapist as seen through the recollections of his wife and one of his victims. As the film starts, ...

Set during Japan’s Shogun era, this film looks at life in a samurai compound where young warriors are trained in swordfighting. A number of ...

Four sexually hungry high school students preparing for their university entrance exams meet up with an inebriated teacher singing bawdy drinking ...

Watashi-wa beretto is a promotional film for the automobile manufacturer Isuzu Jidosha directed by Nagisa Ôshima. Release: It’s Me Here, ...

Story of Kyoto: its history, culture, and the role it has played in the director’s life and the life of his mother. Release: Kyoto My ...

A playful short film made in the style of a trailer for a fictional feature film that seems to be a spoof of films that were popular in Japan at ...

A sex-obsessed young woman, a suicidal young man she meets on the street, a gun-crazy wannabe gangster-these are just three of the irrational, ...

A corrupt businessman blackmails the lovelorn reprobate Atsushi into watching over his suitcase full of embezzled cash while he serves a jail ...

A metaphysical mystery involving a university student’s camera getting stolen, and the thief then committing suicide. Looking back upon the ...