Japanese New Wave

At the end of the fifties the Shochiku studio entrusted films to its young assistants in order to rejuvenate its audience, and found itself with works it sometimes pulled from cinemas after a few days. Oshima filmed students who blackmail older men, Imamura followed a woman who survives by every possible means in post-war Japan, Teshigahara shut an entomologist in a house at the bottom of a sand dune, Suzuki pushed the yakuza film into pure abstraction and was sacked by his studio for it.

works 7

• CinemaGiants and Toys巨人と玩具Yasuzo Masumura · 1958A 1958 film about the advertising war waged by three confectioners, and about the saleswoman who is manufactured to win it.Cinema
• CinemaCruel Story of Youth青春残酷物語Nagisa Oshima · 1960A film of 1960 in which two young people live by blackmailing older men, in the year the country took to the streets.Cinema
• CinemaThe Insect Womanにっぽん昆虫記Shohei Imamura · 1963Film of 1963 that follows a peasant woman from the north for almost half a century, from the spinning mill to procuring.Cinema
• CinemaWoman in the Dunes砂の女Hiroshi Teshigahara · 1964A 1964 film in which a passing man is held in a pit among the dunes, with a woman who clears away sand every night.Cinema
• CinemaBranded to Kill殺しの烙印Seijun Suzuki · 1967A film noir of 1967 about a hired killer who becomes the target of his own organisation, with an increasingly unhinged logic.Cinema
• CinemaFuneral Parade of Roses薔薇の葬列Toshio Matsumoto · 1969A 1969 film shot among the transvestites of Tokyo, which interrupts its fiction with interviews of those who play in it.Cinema
• CinemaDouble Suicide心中天網島Masahiro Shinoda · 1969Film of 1969 based on an old puppet play, in which the puppeteers remain visible on screen.Cinema