“Stop using the term ‘New Wave’ once and for all! Evaluate each film on its own merits!” protested a critic-turned-auteur from Kyoto named Nagisa Oshima in an angry 1960 denunciation of both Shochiku ...

(Reuters) - Japanese film director Nagisa Oshima, best known for the sexually explicit film "In the Realm of the Senses" and "Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence", has died from pneumonia, aged 80. The ...

The great Japanese director Nagisa Oshima, who died earlier this week at 80, was a key figure in the Japanese new-wave cinema of the 1950s, ’60s, and ’70s. Over the course of a four-decade career (his ...

Tokio, 15 ene (EFE).Tokio, 15 ene (EFE). — El cineasta japonés Nagisa Oshima, director de películas como “El imperio de los sentidos” o “Feliz Navidad, Mr. Lawrence”, ha fallecido a los 80 años en un ...

TOKYO (AP) — Nagisa Oshima, a Japanese director internationally acclaimed for his films “Empire of Passion” and “In the Realm of the Senses,” has died of pneumonia. He was 80. His office, Oshima ...

In a sense, it is unfortunate that the Japanese director Nagisa Oshima, who has died aged 80, was more infamous than famous, due to one film, In the Realm of the Senses (also known as Ai No Corrida, ...

For many critics and cinephiles who came of age in the 1960s and ’70s, Nagisa Oshima, now 76, has long held the mantle of Japan’s greatest living filmmaker. Younger viewers, for the most part, have ...

Nagisa Oshima (1932-2013) began his career in the 1950s at Shochiku studio as a sort of Japanese Orson Welles - a wunderkind shaking up a hidebound film industry. And like Welles, whose Citizen Kane ...

He might be any lonely kid you’d catch watching cars whiz by on a busy road or playing a solo game of hide-and-seek in an abandoned lot. But the “boy” of Nagisa Oshima’s literally ...

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TOKYO (AP) — Nagisa Oshima, a Japanese director internationally acclaimed for his films “Empire of Passion” and “In the Realm of the Senses,” has died of pneumonia. He was 80. His office, Oshima ...

An ardent socialist, he embraced in his early career youth themes and scripts critical of the Japanese establishment, which he regarded as irredeemably conservative. He was an early champion of the ...