Nagisa Ōshima — Playwright (31)
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Band of Ninja (1967)
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★ 7.7 7 ratings
大岛渚 actor: 山本圭 / 戸浦六宏 …
other title: 忍者武艺帐 / 忍者武芸帳 …
The son of an assassinated feudal lord, in the Muromachi period, attempts to avenge his father's death and meets Kagemaru, a renegade ninja helping peasants and farmers rebel against Oda Nobunaga's regime, all depicted through an experimental form of filming pages from the original manga set to sound.
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Dear Summer Sister (1972)
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★ 5.7 6 ratings
Nagisa Ōshima actor: 栗田裕美 / Hōsei Komatsu …
other title: 夏之妹 / 夏の妹 …
14-year-old Sunaoko travels from Tokyo to Naha, Okinawa, with her father’s young fiancée Momoko in search of her half-brother whom she has never met. Their guide, a beer-guzzling ex-soldier, takes them to the locale’s tourist attractions, quickly delving into the underlying scars of the island’s wartime history.
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The Ceremony (1971)
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★ 8.7 17 ratings
大岛渚 actor: 河原崎建三 / 贺来敦子 …
other title: 仪式 / 儀式 …
Oshima’s magisterial epic, centering on the ambivalent surviving heir of the Sakurada clan, uses ritual and the microcosm of the traditional family to trace the rise and fall of militaristic Japan across several decades.
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Diary of Yunbogi (1965)
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★ 6.7 6 ratings
大岛渚 actor: 小松方正
other title: 李润福的日记 / ユンボギの日記
製作・監督・脚本： 大島渚 原作： イ・ユンボギ 脚本： 大島渚 撮影： 川又昂 編集： 浦岡敬一 音楽： 内藤孝敏 語り手： 小松方正 大島渚監督が韓国旅行中に撮り溜めた、主に韓国の少年少女の生活を捉えたスチール写真に、少年の手記「ユンボギの日記」の朗読をかぶせて構成された作品。“イ・ユンボギ、君は10歳の少年……”と、何度も繰り返される作者の呼びかけに、韓国への万感がこもる。
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100 Years of Japanese Cinema (1995)
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★ 6.2 8 ratings
大岛渚 actor: 大岛渚
other title: 百年日本映画 / 日本电影百年 …
The story of the first century of Japanese cinema from the point of view of the controversial Japanese filmmaker Nagisa Ōshima.
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A Treatise on Japanese Bawdy Songs (1967)
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★ 7.3 23 ratings
大岛渚 actor: 荒木一郎 / 岩渊孝次 …
other title: 日本春歌考 / Nihon shunka-ko …
Four sexually hungry high school students preparing for their university entrance exams meet up with an inebriated teacher singing bawdy drinking songs. This encounter sets them on a less than academic path.