DEAR SUMMER SISTER
Made in Okinawa right after the island
was given back by the United States.
Using a vacation film style, it is the
story of a girl who flirts with a local
boy who might be her own father’s
illegitimate son. Changing identities
and close call incest in a sort of
“bedroom” appendix to The Cerimony.
The last film made by Sozosha
Biography
film director
Nagisa Oshima
Nagisa Ōshima (Tamano, Japan, 1931 - Fujisawa, Japan, 2013) is considered one of the maestros of Japanese cinema. An exponent of “nuberu bagu,” his films depict the contradictions of Japanese society since WWII, in which growing materialism is flanked by strict observance of centuries-old rules, generating oxymorons and irresolvable conflicts. His most important films include Cruel Story (1960); The Sun’s Burial (1960); Night and Fog in Japan (1960); The Ceremony (1971); In the Realm of the Senses (1976), a true sensation because of its explicit sexual content; Empire of Passion (1978), which won Best Director at Cannes; and Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence (1983), which received a BAFTA for Best Score. His final film was Taboo (1999), presented in competition at Cannes. In 2009, the Torino Film Festival dedicated a complete retrospective to him.
FILMOGRAFIA
Seishun zankoku monogatari (Racconto crudele della giovinezza, 1960), Taiyō no hakaba (Il cimitero del sole, 1960), Nihon no yoru to kiri (Notte e nebbia in Giappone, 1960), Etsuraku (Il godimento, 1965), Muri shinju: Nihon no natsu (Japanese Summer: Double Suicide, 1967), Koshikei (Death by Hanging, 1968), Gishiki (La cerimonia, 1971), Ai no korīda (Ecco l’impero dei sensi, 1976), Ai no bōrei (L’impero della passione, 1978), Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence (Furyo, 1983), Max mon amour (Max amore mio, 1986), Gohatto (Tabù - Gohatto, 1999).
Cast
& Credits
Nagisa Oshima
sceneggiatura/screenplay
Takeshi Tamura, Mamoru
Sasaki, Nagisa Oshima
fotografia/cinematography
Yasuhiro Yoshioka
montaggio/film editing
Keiichi Uraoka
musica/music
Toru Takemitsu
suono/sound
Tetsuo Yasuda
interpreti e personaggi/
cast and characters
Hiromi Kurita (Sunaoko,
figlia di Kosuke Kikuchi/
Kosuke Kikuchi’s Daughter),
Hosei Komatsu (Kosuke
Kikuchi), Akiko Koyama
(Tsuru Omura),
Shoji Ishibashi (Tsuruo,
figlio di Tsuru Omura/
Tsuru Omura’s son),
Kei Sato
(Shinko Kuniyoshi)
produttori/producers
Kinshiro Kuzui,
Eiko Oshima
produzione/production
Sozosha, ATG