Nagisa Ōshima Movies

14-year-old Sunaoko travels from Tokyo to Naha, Okinawa, with her father’s young fiancée Momoko in search of her half-brother whom she...

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

When a man chases down his stolen movie camera, the thief commits suicide by jumping off a building. But after the police take the camera as...

Towards the end of WWII, a black American pilot is captured and imprisoned by rural Japanese villagers, who await official instructions as to how to...

The lives of a teenager, his impoverished family, a wealthy young woman who buys a pigeon from him, and his caring teacher converge and consequently...

Comedy about the trials and tribulations of youth.

Bored by the emptiness of everyday life, four students gather to play dangerous games in an apartment.

The program investigates the secrets behind the success of Japan’s most famous baseball team, the Tokyo Yomiuri Kyojin-gun, affectionately...

Oshima exposes the fact that many wounded soldiers cannot receive compensation from the Japanese government because of their Korean nationality,...

The son of an assassinated feudal lord, in the Muromachi period, attempts to avenge his father's death and meets Kagemaru, a renegade ninja helping...

Shochiku's up-and-coming stars take the stage in a series of short skits parodying popular films of the time.

Works commemorating the 70th anniversary of the founding of Japan mapping Supervision Association

A BBC television documentary on the life of Yukio Mishima that highlights the many known major aspects of his life and personality.

Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011....

Story of Kyoto: its history, culture, as well as the role it has played in the director's life and the life of his mother.

Nagisa Oshima interviews Akira Kurosawa, leading him to share his thoughts about filmmaking, his life and works, and numerous anecdotes relating to...

Nagisa Oshima's documentary details the rise of Chairman Mao during the revolution and shows the Communist Party's struggle and cultural upheaval....

The story of the first century of Japanese cinema from the point of view of the controversial Japanese filmmaker Nagisa Ōshima.