27° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL

SHONEN

BOY
by Nagisa Oshima
Country: Japan
Year: 1969
Duration: 97'


BOY
A beloved film of many. The father
and step-mother of two children make
a living by swindling car drivers: the
woman throws herself under a passing
car and the man tries to convince the
driver to settle things without involving
the insurance companies. The two
children are extras in this activity, until
the elder child is asked to throw himself
against the cars as well.

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/director
Nagisa Oshima
sceneggiatura/screenplay
Takeshi Tamura
fotografia/cinematography
Yasuhiro Yoshioka,
Seizo Sengen
montaggio/film editing
Sueko Shiraishi
scenografia/
production design
Jusho Toda
musica/music
Hikaru Hayashi
suono/sound
Hideo Nishizaki
interpreti e personaggi/
cast and characters
Fumio Watanabe
(Takeo Omura),
Akiko Koyama
(Takeko Taniguchi),
Tetsuo Abe (Toshio),
Tsuyoshi Kinoshita
(il fratellino/little brother)
produttori/producers
Masayuki Nakajima, Takuji
Yamaguchi
produzione/production
Sozosha, ATG
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