THE MAN WHO LEFT HIS WILL
ON FILM
The act of filming is the focus of this
film. A group of film students lose faith
in the notion of “political cinema”
and fight to give meaning to apparently
casual images of the city streets.
The manifesto of the “landscape theory”
that was elaborated during the period
following the open conflict conducted
by the Communist League’s Red Army.
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
soggetto/story
Nagisa Oshima,
Takeshi Tamura
sceneggiatura/screenplay
Masataka Hara,
Mamoru Sasaki
fotografia/cinematography
Toichiro Narushima
montaggio/film editing
Keiichi Uraoka
scenografia/
production design
Jusho Toda
musica/music
Toru Takemitsu
suono/sound
Hideo Nishizaki
interpreti e personaggi/
cast and characters
Kazuo Goto (Shoichi
Motoki), Emiko Iwasaki
(Yasuko), Sugio Fukuoka
(Tanizawa), Kenichi Fukuda
(Matsumura), Hiroshi
Isogai (Sakamoto), Kazuo
Hashimoto (Takagi)
produttore/producer
Takuji Yamaguchi
produzione/production
Sozosha, ATG