Nagisa Oshima

Ryuichi Sakamoto interview

Piano man

13 Nov 2009

His collaboration with David Byrne on the score to The Last Emperor scored them an Oscar, but as Neil Cooper discovers, the pianist and composer Ryuichi Sakamoto is happiest keeping things minimal, but always experimental It may be a quarter of a…

Hitlist: Films

17 Sep 2009

Army of Crime, The Beaches of Agnes, White Lightnin', The Godfather, Nagisa Oshima, Fish Tank, Adventureland, Three Miles North of Molkom, Inglourious Basterds, The Big Knife, The Stranger

Nagisa Oshima retrospective at Edinburgh Filmhouse

The Pensive Provocateur

2 Sep 2009

A complex figure making sense of a complex, still defeated post-war Japanese society, Nagisa Oshima’s career coincided with the French Nouvelle Vague, and he has proved over the years as provocative a filmmaker as any that came out of France at the end…

Nagisa Oshima retrospective

Legendary Japanese director has his work shown at the Filmhouse

27 Aug 2009

Arguably Japan’s greatest living director is honoured in this fantastic and near comprehensive 22 film retrospective. Tracing Oshima’s impressive body of work from early left-leaning melodramas Cruel Story of Youth, The Sun’s Burial and Night and Fog in…

Violence at High Noon

22 Jan 2009

THRILLER In his films from the 1960s Japanese filmmaker Nagisa Oshima (In the Realm of the Senses, Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence) often seemed to be putting his entire nation on the analyst’s couch. In Violence at High Noon he analyses serial killing…

Naked Youth

10 Apr 2008

TEEN DRAMA (15) 97min (Yume DVD retail) As Noel Burch in his key tome on Japanese cinema, To The Distant Observer, has noted, the disaffected youth film was popular in the aspirant years of the late 50s and early 60s. This film, Nagisa Oshima’s 1960…