Nagisa Ôshima

Nagisa Ôshima was born on Mar 31, 1932 in Japan. Nagisa Ôshima's big-screen debut came with Asu no taiyô directed by Nagisa Ôshima in 1959. Nagisa Ôshima is known for Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence directed by Nagisa Ôshima, David Bowie stars as Celliers and Tom Conti as Lawrence. Nagisa Ôshima has got 13 awards and 9 nominations so far. The most recent award Nagisa Ôshima achieved is Blue Ribbon Awards. The upcoming new movie Nagisa Ôshima plays is Taboo which will be released on Dec 18, 1999.

Nagisa Oshima's career extends from the initiation of the "Nuberu bagu" (New Wave) movement in Japanese cinema in the late 1950s and early 1960s, to the contemporary use of cinema and television to express paradoxes in modern society. After an early involvement with the student protest movement in Kyoto, Oshima rose rapidly in the Shochiku company from the status of apprentice, in 1954, to that of director. By 1960, he had grown disillusioned with the traditional studio production policies and broke away from Shochiku to form his own independent production company, Sozosha, in 1965. With other Japanese New Wave filmmakers, like