Mamoru Sasaki
Mamoru Sasaki was a Japanese screenwriter for film and television. He was a frequent collaborator of Japanese New Wave directors like Nagisa Oshima and writer Masao Adach. He was also a prolific writer for Japanese tokusatsu shows with Akio Jissoji. Not to be confused with... Read full bio →
Seibo Kannon daibosatsu
Eros Eterna tells the story of a legendary immortal nun who wanders around encountering several people of various conditions.
Natsu no imôto
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.
Gishiki
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.
Tôkyô sensô sengo hiwa
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.
Shinjuku dorobô nikki
This is the story of a bookstore thief named Birdy, who is led through various adventures in Tokyo's Shinjuku district by salesgirl Umeko.
Kôshikei
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.
Kaette kita yopparai
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.
Ninja bugei-chô
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.
Nihon shunka-kô
This movie is about four male high school students who took their university entrance exams and are just hanging around mostly.
Muri shinjû: Nihon no natsu
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.