FILM DIRECTOR

Nagisa Oshima

1932 - 2013

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Nagisa Ōshima (大島 渚, Ōshima Nagisa, March 31, 1932 – January 15, 2013) was a Japanese filmmaker, writer, and left-wing activist who is best known for his fiction films, of which he directed 23 features in a career spanning from 1959 to 1999. He is regarded as one of the greatest Japanese directors of all time, and as one of the most important figures of the Japanese New Wave (Nūberu bāgu), alongside Shōhei Imamura. His film style was bold, innovative and provocative. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nagisa Oshima has received more than 381,144 page views. His biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 41 in 2019). Nagisa Oshima is the 174th most popular film director (down from 164th in 2019), the 190th most popular biography from Japan (down from 152nd in 2019) and the 9th most popular Japanese Film Director.

Nagisa Oshima is most famous for his controversial film "In the Realm of the Senses" which was banned in Japan.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Nagisa Oshima ranks 174 out of 2,041. Before him are Abel Gance, István Szabó, Max Ophüls, Guillermo del Toro, Roy Andersson, and Genndy Tartakovsky. After him are Jacques Rivette, Gordon Parks, Gillo Pontecorvo, Jerzy Skolimowski, Don Siegel, and Alejandro González Iñárritu.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1932, Nagisa Oshima ranks 67. Before him are Piper Laurie, Princess Astrid, Mrs. Ferner, Stephen Covey, Robert Vaughn, Meir Kahane, and David Scott. After him are Gunter Sachs, Hiroaki Sato, Benigno Aquino Jr., Little Richard, Pier Angeli, and Sonny Liston. Among people deceased in 2013, Nagisa Oshima ranks 48. Before him are Jerome Karle, Jesús Franco, James Gandolfini, Lawrence Klein, John Cornforth, and James M. Buchanan. After him are Richard Matheson, Ed Lauter, Chinua Achebe, Viktor Kulikov, Manfred Rommel, and Ovadia Yosef.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Nagisa Oshima ranks 190 out of 6,245. Before him are Emperor Kōgen (-272), Sen no Rikyū (1522), Emperor Seimu (83), Shimazu Yoshihiro (1535), Emperor Sakuramachi (1720), and Emperor Kōtoku (596). After him are Emperor Antoku (1178), Kitarō (1953), Ashikaga Takauji (1305), Tokugawa Tsunayoshi (1646), Mitsuru Ushijima (1887), and Nogi Maresuke (1849).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Japan

Among film directors born in Japan, Nagisa Oshima ranks 9. Before him are Yasujirō Ozu (1903), Isao Takahata (1935), Takeshi Kitano (1947), Kenji Mizoguchi (1898), Shohei Imamura (1926), and Masaki Kobayashi (1916). After him are Hirokazu Kore-eda (1962), Hideaki Anno (1960), Franklin J. Schaffner (1920), Makoto Shinkai (1973), Mamoru Oshii (1951), and Satoshi Kon (1963).

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