Nagisa Ōshima

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Nagisa Oshima at the Film Festival in Cannes 2000

Nagisa Ōshima ( Japanese 大 島 渚 Ōshima Nagisa ; born March 31, 1932 in Kyōto , Japan , † January 15, 2013 in Fujisawa , Japan) was a Japanese film director and screenwriter .

Life

When Ōshima was six years old, his father died, so he and his younger sister were raised with his mother. After passing law degree from Kyoto University , he worked from 1954 to 1959 as assistant director for the film studio Shochiku , where he at Yoshitarō Nomura and Masaki Kobayashi went into teaching.

From 1959 he tried as a film director for Shōchiku and was soon considered one of the leading representatives of the "Nuberu bagu" (the new wave ). After being kicked out of Shōchiku, which was preceded by a political scandal, he and his wife founded their own film production company under the name Sozosha . With the films he made there, he aroused the minds of the Japanese public, as the films dealt with taboo topics in Japan at the time, especially sex, crime and violence.

In 1976 he achieved international success with the scandal film In the Realm of the Senses (Ai no korīda) , which is now considered his most famous film. 1978 appeared in the realm of passion (Ai no bōrei) , which won the 1978 Cannes Film Festival the prize for best director .

Nagisa Ōshima often worked with the well-known Japanese composers Riichirō Manabe and Hikaru Hayashi .

Ōshima was married to the actress Akiko Koyama .

Filmography

literature

  • Nagisa Ōshima: The premonition of freedom. Fonts . Wagenbach Berlin, 1982, as paperback from Fischer in 1988

Web links

Commons : Nagisa Ōshima  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "In the Realm of the Senses" director Oshima dies
personal data
SURNAME Ōshima, Nagisa
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 大 島 渚 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese film director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH March 31, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Kyoto , Japan
DATE OF DEATH January 15, 2013
Place of death Fujisawa , Japan