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NAGISA OSHIMA

Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Apr 4, 2020
¡®What is Japanese Cinema?¡¯ review: A deft and engaging history of Japanese film
This book is healthily nonjudgmental concerning which films are ¡°good¡± and which are not. Instead it steps back ¡ª far back ¡ª to gaze carefully at and analyze the bigger picture: the role that cinema has played in reflecting and altering Japanese consciousness and Japanese reality over the span of a century.
CULTURE / Books / ESSENTIAL READING FOR JAPANOPHILES
Oct 12, 2019
¡®Politics, Porn and Protest¡¯: The beguiling world of experimental Japanese film
Isolde Standish¡¯s ¡®Politics, Porn and Protest¡¯ takes readers on a tour of landmark Japanese avant-garde films, including those by legendary directors Nagisa Oshima and Shohei Imamura.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Jan 9, 2016
Nagisa Oshima: ¡®You have to tell the truth about your country, whatever it is¡¯
Jan. 15 marks the third anniversary of the renowned film director¡¯s death. Roger Pulvers, who knew him for more than 30 years and was his assistant on ¡°Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence,¡± discusses the man and his work
COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Feb 24, 2013
Osaka: Â鶹´«Ã½ latterday second city forever breaks the national mold
They¡¯re funny, finicky and feisty, not to mention being full of wicked mischief, with their own way of talking, too. Outside of Japan, think of Liverpool, not London; or Munich, not Berlin; or Mumbai, not Delhi. I¡¯m talking about the people of Osaka.
JAPAN / Media
Jan 19, 2013
Oshima was in a realm of his own
Film director Nagisa Oshima passed away Tuesday. He was 80.
EDITORIALS
Jan 19, 2013
Rebel filmmaker will be missed
Mr. Nagisa Oshima, the filmmaker who, perhaps more than any other, challenged the conventional morality and sober certainties of Japan, died of pneumonia Tuesday at the age of 80. His films earned respect around the world and broke restraints on what could be shown and told within cinematic art. Japan...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Jan 17, 2013
Nagisa Oshima: a leading force in film
Film director Nagisa Oshima, who died in Fujisawa, Kanagawa Prefecture, of pneumonia on Tuesday at age 80, was a leader of Â鶹´«Ã½ postwar New Wave movement.
CULTURE / Film
Jan 17, 2013
Donald Richie on ¡®Koshikei (Death by Hanging)¡¯
This review as originally published on Sunday, Jan. 28, 1968.
CULTURE / Film
Jan 17, 2013
Nick Bornoff on ¡®Senjo no Meri Kurisumasu (Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence)¡¯
Internationally acclaimed for their formal style and power, Nagisa Oshima¡¯s films have always dealt with controversial issues which Â鶹´«Ã½ Establishment would rather see swept under the carpet. Based upon a famous Laurens van der Post novel (The Seed and the Sower), Oshima¡¯s ¡°Senjo no Meri Kurisumasu...
CULTURE / Books / THE ASIAN BOOKSHELF
Aug 22, 2004
Sexual, textual and visual boundaries
IN THE REALM OF THE SENSES (BFI Film Classics), by Joan Mellen. London: British Film Institute, 2004, 88 pp., with photographs. ?8.99 (paper).
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