27° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL

NIHON EIGA NO HYAKU NEN

100 YEARS OF JAPANESE CINEMA
by Nagisa Oshima
Country: UK
Year: 1994
Duration: 66'


100 YEARS OF JAPANESE CINEMA
An episode of the series The Century
of Cinema
, which involved seventeen
important directors in celebration of the
centennial of the birth of the seventh art.
Starting with the refound film by
Daisuke Ito Chuji tabi nikki: Goyo hen,
from 1927, Oshima traces the history
of Japanese cinema, in part through an
analysis of his own works and what they
represented for his country

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

regia, soggetto,
sceneggiatura/director,
story, screenplay
Nagisa Oshima
fotografia/cinematography
Masashi Chikamori
montaggio/film editing
Tomoyo Oshima
musica/music
Toru Takemitsu
suono/sound
Kunio Ando
produttore/producer
Eiko Oshima
produzione/production
Oshima Productions,
BFI TV,
Asahi National
Broadcasting Company
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