27° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL

KYOTO, MAI MAZAZU PUREISU

KYOTO, MY MOTHER'S PLACE
by Nagisa Oshima
Country: UK, Japan
Year: 1991
Duration: 50'


KYOTO MY MOTHER’S PLACE
A poignant and revealing portrait
of Kyoto, the city Oshima moved to
at six years of age upon the death of his
father. The photographs and interviews
with old friends reveal the difficulties his
mother had to face in order to integrate
with the people of the ancient Japanese
capital. The private tone makes the film
a sort of self-portrait.

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

egia, sceneggiatura/
director, screenplay
Nagisa Oshima
fotografia/cinematography
Yasuhiro Yoshioka
montaggio/film editing
Tomoyo Oshima
musica/music
Tsuneo Fukuhara,
Kiyoshi Yamaya,
Minoru Miki,
M. Watanabe, S. Ono,
Momonosuke Fukuhara
suono/sound
Kunio Ando
produttore/producer
John Archer
produzione/production
BBC (Scotland)
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