Nagisa Oshima

Nagisa Oshima is a famous Japanese writer and film director living in New York City. After graduating from Kyoto University he was hired by Shochiku Ltd. and quickly progressed to directing his own movies, making his debut feature A Town of Love and Hope (愛と希望の街; Ai to kibo no machi) in 1959.

Nagisa Oshima biography in Senses of Cinema: Great Directors Critical Database

• Retrospective at the Kerala International Film Festival, India. [2000]
• Biography in: John Wakeman, editor. "World Film Directors, Volume Two, 1945-1985". Pages 719-728. New York: The H.W. Wilson Company, 1988.
• Member of the jury at the Venice Film Festival in 1983.
• Member of the jury at the Venice Film Festival in 1994.

As an actor:

• 1976 Yakuza no hakaba: Kuchinashi no hana
• 1968 Koshikei

As a director:

• 1999 Gohatto
• 1994 100 Years of Japanese Cinema
• 1991 Kyoto, My Mother's Place
• 1986 Max mon amour
• 1983 Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence
• 1978 Ai no borei
• 1977 Shisha wa itsumademo wakai
• 1977 Yokoi shoichi: guamu-to 28 nen no nazo o ou
• 1976 Ai no corrida
• 1976 Denki mo-taku-to
• 1976 Ikiteiru gyokusai no shima
• 1976 Ikiteiru umi no bohyo
• 1976 Ogon no daichi Bengal
• 1975 Ikiteiru nihonkai-kaisen
• 1975 The Battle of Tsushima
• 1973 Bengal no chichi laman
• 1972 Natsu no imoto
• 1972 Goze: Momoku no onna-tabigeinin
• 1972 Joi! Bangla
• 1972 Kyojin-gun
• 1971 Gishiki
• 1970 Tokyo senso sengo hiwa
• 1969 Shonen
• 1969 Mo-taku-to to bunka daikakumei
• 1968 Kaette kita yopparai
• 1968 Koshikei
• 1968 Daitoa senso
• 1968 Shinjuku dorobo nikki
• 1967 Nihon shunka-kô
• 1967 Muri shinju: Nihon no natsu
• 1967 Ninja bugei-cho
• 1966 Hakuchu no torima
• 1965 Etsuraku
• 1965 Gyosen sonansu
• 1965 Yunbogi no nikki
• 1964 Aija no akebono
• 1964 Aisurebakoso
• 1964 Aogeba totoshi
• 1964 Aru kokutetsu-jomuin
• 1964 Chiisana boken ryoko
• 1964 Chita Niseigo taiheiyô ôdan
• 1964 Gimei shojo
• 1964 Hankotsu no toride
• 1964 Seishun no ishibumi
• 1964 Watashi-wa beretto
• 1963 Wasurerareta kogun
• 1962 Amakusa shiro tokisada
• 1962 Kori no naka no seishun
• 1961 Shiiku
• 1960 Nihon no yoru to kiri
• 1960 Taiyo no hakaba
• 1960 Seishun zankoku monogatari
• 1959 Ai to kibo no machi
• 1959 Asu no taiyo