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Kôshikei

Kôshikei

Nagisa Ōshima 1968 1h 58m 9.0

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.

Muri shinjû: Nihon no natsu

Muri shinjû: Nihon no natsu

Nagisa Ōshima 1967 1h 39m

A sex-obsessed young woman, a suicidal young man she meets on the street, a gun-crazy wannabe gangster—these are just three of the irrational, oddball anarchists trapped in an underground hideaway in Oshima’s devilish, absurdist portrait of what he deemed the “death drive” in Japanese youth culture.

Shinjuku dorobô nikki

Shinjuku dorobô nikki

Nagisa Ōshima 1969 1h 36m

This is the story of a bookstore thief named Birdy, who is led through various adventures in Tokyo's Shinjuku district by salesgirl Umeko.

Shōnen

Shōnen

Nagisa Ōshima 1969 1h 38m 7.5

A young boy reluctantly aids his swindling father in a threatening scam.

Gishiki

Gishiki

Nagisa Ōshima 1971 2h 3m 8.3

Oshima’s magisterial epic, centering on the ambivalent surviving heir of the Sakurada clan, uses ritual and the microcosm of the traditional family to trace the rise and fall of militaristic Japan across several decades.

Kaette kita yopparai

Kaette kita yopparai

Nagisa Ōshima 1968 1h 20m

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 develops into a crime story.

Etsuraku

Etsuraku

Nagisa Ōshima 1965 1h 31m 7.0

A film by Nagisa Oshima from the Criterion Eclipse set.

Tôkyô sensô sengo hiwa

Tôkyô sensô sengo hiwa

Nagisa Ōshima 1970 1h 34m

A metaphysical mystery involving a university student's camera getting stolen, and the thief then committing suicide. Looking back upon the event, the situation comes to be questioned if it happened at all.

Natsu no imôto

Natsu no imôto

Nagisa Ōshima 1972 1h 36m

Sunaoko come to Okinawa to find his brother Tsuruo. Her searching is not very painless because it tears up old wounds in complicated relationships, some of which date back to the horrors of war.

Nihon shunka-kô

Nihon shunka-kô

Nagisa Ōshima 1967 1h 43m

This movie is about four male high school students who took their university entrance exams and are just hanging around mostly.

Hakuchû no tôrima

Hakuchû no tôrima

Nagisa Ōshima 1966 1h 39m

Two young women must come to terms with the fact that a man they're deeply linked to is a murdering rapist.

Ninja bugei-chô

Ninja bugei-chô

Nagisa Ōshima 1967 2h

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 peasants and farmers rebel against Oda Nobunaga's regime, all depicted through an experimental form of filming pages from the original manga set to sound.