Nagisa Ôshima

Set during Japan's Shogun era, this film looks at life in a samurai compound where young warriors are trained in swordfighting. A number of interpersonal conflicts are brewing in the training room, all centering around a handsome young samurai named Sozaburo Kano. The school's stern master can choose to intervene, or to let Kano decide his own path. (imdb)

Based on a true story set in pre-war Japan, a man and one of his servants begin a torrid affair.

Makoto and Kiyoshi's generation follows their desires. She's in high school when a university student... (imdb)

In 1942 British soldier Jack Celliers comes to a japanese prison camp. The camp is run by Yonoi, who has a firm belief in discipline, honour and glory. (imdb)

A young man has an affair with an older woman. He is very jealous of her husband and decides that they should kill him. One night, after the husband had plenty of sake to drink and was in bed, they strangle him and dump his body down a well... (imdb)

A Korean man is sentenced to death by hanging, but he survives the execution. For the following two hours, his executioners try to work out how to handle the situation in this black farce. (imdb)

A family of four lives off of scams in which they pretend to be injured by automobiles. After suffering an injury during the war, the father believes he is an invalid... (All Movie Guide)

Oshima's most overtly political film, The Ceremony uses the backdrop of Japanese rituals (several weddings and more than one funeral) to mount a scathing attack on Japanese politics. Depicting the story of one family over 30 years, its promotion of a more tolerant society and the freedom that comes with it occasionally makes way for some genuinely moving depiction of everyday family life... (Channel 4)

Shinjuku Thief is the story of a bookstore thief named Birdey who is led through various adventures in Tokyo's Shinjuku district by salesgirl Umeko. (imdb)

In Osaka's slum, youth without futures engage in pilfering, assault and robbery, prostitution, and the buying and selling of identity cards and of blood. (IMDB)

The plot of the Man Who Left His Will on Film follows a young college student who plummets off a rooftop to his death with only his camera and spare film in hand. His friend in his film club recovers the film testament after the police handle it. This young college student is inspired by the film and sets off with the deceased's ex-girlfriend to locate and re-create the places where he shot. (imdb)

A sensationalistic and surreal love triangle develops between a serial rapist, his schoolteacher wife, and one of his past victims.

Oshima's first film does a wonderful job portraying the lives of those left behind when Japan's economy was on the upswing. It shows the thick glass walls of class distinction and the true difficulty of both sides being able to come to terms with each other. (imdb)

A group of provincial high school students, in Tokyo for their university entrance examinations, are thoroughly disillusioned with the older generation and see no hope for the future. They respond by going around singing dirty songs. A Korean prostitute teaches them that these songs are not only funny - they can be sad as well. Their fantasies have been centering around a rich girl they have seen. Now, still in fantasy, they set about killing her. (asian wiki)

Adrift and unable to be with the love of his life, a man spends two years spending a huge sum of cash that isn't his to spend on a series of mistresses.

In this reworking of the traditional Japanese tale of double suicide, a paranoid young man on the run from local crime bosses falls into a torturous relationship with a woman who just wants someone to make love to her, no strings attached. (cinema.wisc.edu)

Starving Christian peasants, oppressed by landowners and samurai alike, rise up, led by a teenage boy called Shiro, against the Shogunate. (American Cinematheque)

Reserved and cool, Margaret is the French wife of Peter, a British diplomat posted to France with their son Nelson.... (imdb)

The director takes a very serious subject - the return of Okinawa to Japan from American control - and gives it a pop, almost parodic feel, with a floating camera and free-form narrative.

In 1960, during the wedding ceremony between Nozawa, a journalist and former student radical of the 1950's, and Reiko, a current activist, some of the people present recall the student demonstrations against the AMPO treaty, attributing responsibility and faults one another.

Three students spend their holidays at the seaside where they are mistaken for Koreans, a minority which is looked down on in Japan (imdb)

This animation consists in still cartoon-drawings with voice-over and sound effects, very unique...

A black soldier flying during World War 2 is taken prisoner in a small Japanese village when his plane goes down.

As part of BFI's series "The century of Cinema" Nagisa Oshima contributed this documentary depicting the devolepment of Japanese cinema during the last century.

An early short film from the legendary Nagisa Oshima, in the style of a trailer for a feature that doesn't exist.

In a long dialogue, Nagisa Oshima interviews Akira Kurosawa, leading him to share his thoughts about filmmaking, his life and works, and numerous anecdotes relating to his films and his various film activities. (imdb)

Yunbogi is a child who lives in a slum on the outskirts of Taegu, South Korea. Abandoned by his mother, Yunbogi must care for his two sisters and brother by taking on a series of small jobs. (imdb)

Kyoto, My Mother's Place is a lovely, achingly personal portrait of Oshima's mother and the world in which she came to live when she arrived in Kyoto as a young woman. Oshima explores a city that has somehow tried to resist the passage of time, a metaphor for the country that Oshima and his generation came to inherit. (Film Society of Lincoln Centre)

Watashi-wa beretto is a promotional film for the automobile manufacturer Isuzu Jidosha directed by Nagisa Ôshima. (KG)

Oshima exposes the fact that many wounded soldiers cannot receive compensation from the Japanese government because of their Korean nationality, while questioning if this is a just way for the Japanese to act. (Letterboxd)