Oshima Nagisa
Selected Filmography:
1959: A Town of Love and Hope
1960: Cruel Story of Youth
1961: The Catch
1969: Boy
1971: The Ceremony
1975: In the Realm of senses
1978: Empire of Passion
1986: Max, my Love
1999: Taboo
Selection:
Oshima Nagisa was born in 1932 in Toyo. He graduated from Kyoto University in political history in 1954 and joined Shochiku film Production Company. He wrote many scripts, as well as film reviews. He directed his first feature, A Town of Love and hope in 1959. Soon after, he left Shochiku to work for television. He founded his own production company, Sozo-sha. In 1972, he quit cinema, before returning with 1976 French-Japanese coproduction In the Realm of Senses. He died in 2013.
