Tomiyama is a film producer and cofounder of Image Forum, and she played one of the inn’s young maids in In the Realm of the Senses. Nagisa Oshima Quick Shop Japanese Summer: Double Suicide Nagisa Oshima Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence Nagisa Oshima Quick Shop Pleasures of the Flesh Nagisa Oshima Sing a Song of Sex Nagisa Oshima Three Resurrected Drunkards ... Search Criterion. T omorrow evening, just before sunset, Nagisa Oshima’s ghost story Empire of Passion (1978) will materialize at the Austin Film Society Cinema in Texas, as the theater continues its monthlong retrospective series devoted to the Japanese auteur.
Often called the Godard of the East, Japanese director Nagisa Oshima was one of the most provocative film artists of the twentieth century, and his works challenged and shocked the cinematic world for decades. The following article, based on an interview with Nagisa Oshima conducted by Katsue Tomiyama in April 1983, first appeared, in slightly longer form, in the Japanese magazine Image Forum.
Genius provocateur Nagisa Oshima, an influential figure in the Japanese New Wave of the 1960s, made one of his most startling political statements with the compelling pitch-black satire Death by Hanging. Nagisa Oshima Quick Shop Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence Nagisa Oshima Quick Shop Empire of Passion Nagisa Oshima Quick Shop Pleasures of the Flesh Nagisa Oshima Violence at Noon Nagisa Oshima ... Search Criterion. In this captivating, skewed World War II drama from Nagisa Oshima, David Bowie regally embodies Celliers, a British officer interned by the Japanese as a POW.
Following his rise to prominence at Shochiku, Oshima struck out to form his own production company, Sozo-sha, in the early sixties. The article was translated for the Criterion release by Ted Goossen.
Nagisa Oshima Criterion Reflections – Episode 51 – Nagisa Oshima’s The Ceremony David is joined by Grant Douglas Bromley, Josh Hornbeck and Trevor Berrett to analyze this tormented family saga, a ritualized encapsulation of 25 years of Japanese history. In this macabre farce, a Korean man is sentenced to death in Japan but survives his execution, sending the authorities into a panic about what to do next. After politics played a part in Oshima leaving Shochiku, the filmmaker would go on to create his own company known as Sozo-sha (Creation Company) and in celebration of his work from his new studio and many fans bombarding Criterion for more Nagisa Oshima, The Criterion Collection has chosen Nagisa Oshima's mid-to-late '60s films to be part of the latest Eclipse Series Collection known as "Eclipse …