Firebrand auteur Nagisa Ōshima offers a devastating vision of moral rot within postwar Japanese society in the form of a hauntingly sad family tragedy.
Nagisa Oshima
Japan,
1969
35 mm
The youngest generation of a Japanese family are forced to submit to a series of cruelly-enforced family traditions.
Nagisa Oshima
Japan,
1971
35 mm
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
Japan,
1968
Blu-ray, DVD
When a thief is caught stealing form a book shop by one of its employees, the two embark on an unusual, erotic adventure.
Nagisa Oshima
Japan,
1969
35 mm
Set in a Japanese village at the end of the nineteenth century, _Empire of Passion_ details the downfall of a married woman and her lover after they murder her husband and dump his body in a well. With eroticism and horror, Oshima plunges the viewer into a nightmarish tale of guilt and retribution.
Nagisa Oshima
Japan,
1978
35 mm, DVD
A graphic portrayal of insatiable sexual desire, In the Realm of the Senses, set in 1936 and based on a true incident, depicts a man and a woman consumed by a transcendent, destructive love while living in an era of ever escalating imperialism and governmental control.
Nagisa Oshima
Japan,
1976
35 mm, Blu-ray, DVD
A sex-obsessed young woman, a suicidal man she meets on the street, a gun-crazy wannabe gangster—these are just three of the irrational, oddball anarchists trapped in an underground hideaway in Oshima’s devilish, absurdist film.
Nagisa Oshima
Japan,
1967
35 mm, DVD
When a man chases down his stolen movie camera, the thief commits suicide by jumping off a building. But after the police take the camera as evidence, it becomes unclear if there was ever a thief in the first place.
Nagisa Oshima
Japan,
1970
35 mm
In this captivating, skewed World War II drama from Nagisa Oshima, David Bowie regally embodies the character Celliers, a British officer interned by the Japanese as a POW. This was one of Oshima’s greatest successes.
Nagisa Oshima
United Kingdom,
1983
35 mm, Blu-ray, DVD
A corrupt businessman blackmails the lovelorn reprobate Atsushi into watching over his suitcase full of embezzled cash while he serves a jail sentence. Rather than wait for the man to retrieve his money, however, Atsushi decides to spend it all in one libidinous rush.
Nagisa Oshima
Japan,
1965
35 mm, DVD
Four sexually hungry high school students prepare for their university entrance exams in Oshima’s hypnotic, free-form depiction of generational political apathy, featuring stunning color cinematography.
Nagisa Oshima
Japan,
1967
DVD
A trio of bumbling young men frolic at the beach. While they swim, their clothes are stolen and replaced with new outfits. Donning these, they are mistaken for undocumented Koreans and end up on the run from comically outraged authorities.
Nagisa Oshima
Japan,
1968
DVD
Containing more than two thousand cuts and a wealth of inventive widescreen compositions, this coolly fragmented character study is a mesmerizing investigation of criminality and social decay.
Nagisa Oshima
Japan,
1966
DVD