Nagisa Ōshima

A corrupt businessman blackmails the lovelorn reprobate Atsushi into watching over his suitcase full of embezzled cash while he serves a jail ...

Three students spend their holidays at the seaside where they are mistaken for Koreans, a minority which is looked down on in Japan. The action ...

In Osaka’s slum, youths without futures engage in pilfering, assault and robbery, prostitution, and the buying and selling of identity ...

Towards the end of the Second World War, a downed U.S. pilot is captured and imprisoned by rural Japanese villagers, who await official ...

A sex-obsessed young woman, a suicidal young man she meets on the street, a gun-crazy wannabe gangster—these are just three of the irrational, ...

Nagisa Oshima’s most personal film is a reflection by the director on his own disillusionment with the revolutionary student movement of the ...

A Korean man is sentenced to death in Japan but survives his execution, sending the authorities into a panic about what to do next.

A young man has an affair with an older woman. He is very jealous of her husband and decides that they should kill him. One night, after the ...

A family of four lives off of scams in which they pretend to be injured by automobiles. After suffering an injury during the war, the father ...

The wife of a British diplomat in Paris takes a chimpanzee as her lover.

Island of Java, 1942, during World War II. British Major Jack Celliers arrives at a Japanese prison camp, run by the strict Captain Yonoi. ...

A budding gangster enthralls a freeloading young woman, soon taking advantage of her knack for hitch-hiking to rob middle-class, middle-aged men.

Based on a true story set in pre-war Japan, a man and one of his servants begin a torrid affair. Their desire becomes a sexual obsession so ...