Nagisa Oshima

Nagisa Oshima was born on 31 March 1932 in Kyoto. A law student at Kyoto University, he was active in the student movement, then joined Shōchiku in 1954, where he became a director at the end of the decade. He broke with the studio after one of his films was withdrawn in 1960 and set up his own production company with the actress Koyama Akiko, whom he had married. He also made documentaries and was a well-known debater on television. A cerebral haemorrhage struck him in 1996; he made one more film in 1999 and died of pneumonia on 15 January 2013.

In the catalogue 2

• CinemaCruel Story of Youth青春残酷物語Nagisa Oshima · 1960Cinema
• CinemaIn the Realm of the Senses愛のコリーダNagisa Oshima · 1976Cinema