Nagisa Ōshima Movies

A passionate telling of the story of Sada Abe, a woman whose affair with her master led to an obsessive and ultimately destructive sexual...

Documentary featuring Nagisa Ōshima and Masuaki Kiyota, a Uri Geller-esque psychic medium

In a small Japanese village at the end of the 19th century, a rickshaw driver's wife takes on a much younger lover and the two conspire to murder him.

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

Long takes and a highly theatrical visual approach combine to form a tense and confrontational look at the decline of a socialist student activists'...

Four sexually hungry high school students preparing for their university entrance exams meet up with an inebriated teacher singing bawdy drinking...

A Korean man is sentenced to death in Japan but somehow survives his execution, sending the authorities into a panic about what to do next.

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.

Documentary about the politician Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.

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

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...

A harsh young man seduces a freeloading young woman and eventually takes advantage of her knack for hitchhiking to rob middle-class men.

In Tokyo's Shinjuku district, the lives of a young man prone to theft, a young woman he meets at a bookstore, and a kabuki actor intersect.

Comedy about the trials and tribulations of youth.

A sex-obsessed woman, a suicidal man she meets on the street, and a gun-crazy wannabe gangster become trapped in an underground hideaway.

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

Oshima’s magisterial epic, centering on the ambivalent surviving heir of the Sakurada clan, uses ritual and the microcosm of the traditional...

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

After committing murder, businessman Atsushi is blackmailed into keeping a suitcase of embezzled money. What follows is a descent into lustful,...