Nagisa Oshima
大島渚
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Birth:Mar 31, 1932
Death:Jan 15, 2013
Age:80
Gender:Male
Hometown:Tamano, Okayama Prefecture, Japan
A Japanese film director and screenwriter who was Japanese cinemas preeminent taboo buster. Between 1959 and 1999 Nagisa Oshima directed more than twenty groundbreaking features. For Oshima film was a form of activism a way of shaking up the status quo. He focused not on classical themes of good and evil or domesticity but on outcasts gangsters murderers rapists sexual deviants and the politically marginalized. Thus Oshimas films deal with social cultural and political criticisms and to show his opinions he has touched upon various subjects like sex war love politics bureaucracy crime rape murder and supernatural things like ghosts.
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