Nagisa Ôshima Overview

Biography

Nagisa Ôshima's career extended from the initiation of the "Nuberu bagu" (New Wave) movement in Japanese cinema in the late 1950s and early 1960s, to the contemporary use of cinema and television to express paradoxes in modern society. After an early involvement with the student protest movement in Kyoto, Ôshima rose rapidly in the Shochiku company from the status of...