Nagisa Oshima was born March 31, 1932 in Kyoto in the family of an engineer, came from the samurai type. Early lost his father, he was forced to earn a living. In April 1950
Oshima joined the Faculty of Law, Kyoto University, while studying at which he became interested in baseball, theater and became active in the student movement, was nicknamed "red student". After graduating from the University
Oshima, along with several fellow student theater endured a difficult exam in April 1954 was admitted to the department assistants Studio Ofuna "company" Shochiku ". In 1956, along with film critic Tadao Sato, he founded the magazine "Eyga hihe" ( "Movie criticism"). When the company in late 1950 came a period of financial crisis, . her producer, . Shiro Kido, . provided the opportunity to put some movies assistants, . and their number fell and
Nagisa Oshima, . and Shе?hei Imamura, . and Esisige Yoshida, . and Masahiro Synod - their work was later called "new wave 'Ofuna'",
. The debut of director was painting "Street Love and Hope" (1959). The following films - "The history of cruel youth" and "Cemetery of the sun" - nominated him for the leaders of a new generation of filmmakers. After the conflict with the leadership of the studio that made a show of his "Night and Fog in Japan,
Nagisa Oshima, left, Shochiku and the fall of 1960 has created his own company -" Shoji ". On it he placed a number of films, which were characterized by the search for new possibilities of cinematic language - "Demon arising in broad daylight" (1966), "Martial Arts Ninja. Album "(1967)," Investigation of obscene songs in Japan "(1967)," The joint suicide of lovers - Japanese Summer "(1968)," The Return of three drunks "(1968)," The Diary of Shinjuku Thief "(1969)," History, told after the Tokyo War "(1970). Shown at the Cannes Film Festival film "The death penalty by hanging" (1968) made a name well-known producer of world kinoobschestvennosti. Since the second half of the 1970
Nagisa Oshima began making movies in collaboration with European filmmakers - he put scandalously famous paintings "Corrida of Love" ( "Realm of the Senses", . 1976) and "Ghosts of Love" ( "Empire of Passion", . 1978), . awarded several prestigious prizes, . and tape "Merry Christmas, . Mr. Lawrence "(1983), . in which the starring David Bowie and Takeshi Kitano,
. In 1986, the French director made a "black" comedy "Max, my love". After a long break in 1999, he made the film "Tabu". In addition,
Nagisa Oshima, many works in television, produces documentary films, writes books.
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