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1. In the Realm of the Senses (1976)
NC-17 | 109 min | Drama, Romance
A passionate telling of the story of Sada Abe, a woman whose affair with her master led to an obsessive and ultimately destructive sexual relationship.
Director: Nagisa Ôshima | Stars: Tatsuya Fuji, Eiko Matsuda, Aoi Nakajima, Yasuko Matsui
Votes: 22,851
2. Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (1983)
R | 123 min | Drama, War
During WWII, a British colonel tries to bridge the cultural divides between a British POW and the Japanese camp commander in order to avoid bloodshed.
Director: Nagisa Ôshima | Stars: David Bowie, Tom Conti, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Takeshi Kitano
Votes: 20,067 | Gross: $2.31M
3. Taboo (1999)
Unrated | 100 min | Drama, History, Thriller
The new member of a samurai militia unit causes disruption as several of his colleagues fall in love with him, threatening to disturb the rigid code of their squad.
Director: Nagisa Ôshima | Stars: Takeshi Kitano, Ryûhei Matsuda, Shinji Takeda, Tadanobu Asano
Votes: 8,087 | Gross: $0.05M
4. Empire of Passion (1978)
R | 105 min | Drama, Horror, Romance
A married woman and her lover murder her husband and dump his body into a well. After a while, his ghost comes to haunt them while the local gossip grows stronger.
Director: Nagisa Ôshima | Stars: Tatsuya Fuji, Kazuko Yoshiyuki, Takahiro Tamura, Takuzô Kawatani
Votes: 4,948
5. Death by Hanging (1968)
Not Rated | 117 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A Korean man is sentenced to death by hanging, but he survives the execution. For the following two hours, his executioners try to work out how to handle the situation in this black farce.
Director: Nagisa Ôshima | Stars: Kei Satô, Do-yun Yu, Fumio Watanabe, Hôsei Komatsu
Votes: 3,349
6. Cruel Story of Youth (1960)
Not Rated | 96 min | Crime, Drama
A harsh young man seduces a freeloading young woman and eventually takes advantage of her knack for hitch-hiking to rob middle-class men.
Director: Nagisa Ôshima | Stars: Miyuki Kuwano, Yûsuke Kawazu, Yoshiko Kuga, Fumio Watanabe
Votes: 2,538
7. Boy (1969)
97 min | Drama
A young boy reluctantly aids his swindling father in a threatening scam.
Director: Nagisa Ôshima | Stars: Fumio Watanabe, Akiko Koyama, Tetsuo Abe, Tsuyoshi Kinoshita
Votes: 1,886
8. The Pleasures of the Flesh (1965)
104 min | Crime, Drama
After Atsushi commits murder, he is blackmailed into keeping a suitcase full of embezzled money. What follows is a descent into lustful, reckless actions and regret.
Director: Nagisa Ôshima | Stars: Katsuo Nakamura, Mariko Kaga, Yumiko Nogawa, Masako Yagi
Votes: 1,713
9. Max My Love (1986)
R | 92 min | Comedy
A married French woman takes a zoo chimp named Max to be her lover.
Director: Nagisa Ôshima | Stars: Charlotte Rampling, Anthony Higgins, Victoria Abril, Anne-Marie Besse
Votes: 1,279
10. The Ceremony (1971)
123 min | Comedy, Drama
Upon receiving a shocking telegram from his cousin, a man recounts his early life, as a member of a broad family full of dark secrets that slowly reveal themselves through the clan ceremonies.
Director: Nagisa Ôshima | Stars: Kenzô Kawarasaki, Atsuko Kaku, Atsuo Nakamura, Kiyoshi Tsuchiya
Votes: 1,234
11. Violence at Noon (1966)
99 min | Crime, Drama
Two young women must come to terms with the fact that a man they're deeply linked to is a murdering rapist.
Director: Nagisa Ôshima | Stars: Saeda Kawaguchi, Akiko Koyama, Kei Satô, Rokkô Toura
Votes: 1,192
12. The Sun's Burial (1960)
87 min | Crime, Drama
In Osaka's slum, capricious folks without futures engage in pilfering, assault and robbery, prostitution, and the trading of ID cards and blood.
Director: Nagisa Ôshima | Stars: Kayoko Honoo, Kôji Nakahara, Masahiko Tsugawa, Fumio Watanabe
Votes: 1,005
13. Level Five (1997)
Not Rated | 106 min | Documentary, Romance, War
The French computer programmer Laura inherits the task of making a computer game of the Battle of Okinawa during World War II. She searches the internet for information on the battle, and ... See full summary »
Director: Chris Marker | Stars: Catherine Belkhodja, Kenji Tokitsu, Nagisa Ôshima, Junichi Ushiyama
Votes: 948 | Gross: $0.02M
14. Yakuza Graveyard (1976)
Not Rated | 97 min | Action, Crime, Drama
When a cop is transferred to a new precinct it is obvious that the area's yakuza mob are not dealing with just another policeman. The cop is bent on results and is not immune to becoming ... See full summary »
Director: Kinji Fukasaku | Stars: Tetsuya Watari, Meiko Kaji, Tatsuo Umemiya, Hideo Murota
Votes: 939
15. Double Suicide: Japanese Summer (1967)
98 min | Crime, Drama
Over the course of a night, a sex-obsessed young woman, a suicidal man, and a gun-crazy wannabe gangster are taken prisoner of a gang awaiting a shootout between a rival gang at dawn.
Director: Nagisa Ôshima | Stars: Kei Satô, Keiko Sakurai, Rokkô Toura, Shunsuke Mizoguchi
Votes: 888
16. Sing a Song of Sex (1967)
103 min | Drama
Four high school students preparing for their university entrance exam fantasize about a classmate, and meet up with their inebriated teacher, while singing bawdy drinking songs.
Director: Nagisa Ôshima | Stars: Ichirô Araki, Kazuko Tajima, Jûzô Itami, Akiko Koyama
Votes: 876
17. Night and Fog in Japan (1960)
107 min | Drama
Long takes and a highly theatrical visual approach combine to form a tense and confrontational look at the decline of a socialist student activists' movement in Japan.
Director: Nagisa Ôshima | Stars: Miyuki Kuwano, Fumio Watanabe, Masahiko Tsugawa, Hiroshi Akutagawa
Votes: 856
18. Diary of a Shinjuku Thief (1969)
96 min | Comedy, Drama
Story of a bookstore thief named Birdey who is led through various adventures in Tokyo's Shinjuku district by salesgirl Umeko.
Director: Nagisa Ôshima | Stars: Tadanori Yokoo, Rie Yokoyama, Moichi Tanabe, Tetsu Takahashi
Votes: 835
19. The Man Who Left His Will on Film (1970)
94 min | Drama
A metaphysical mystery involving a university student's camera getting stolen, and the thief then committing suicide. Looking back upon the event, the situation comes to be questioned if it happened at all.
Director: Nagisa Ôshima | Stars: Kazuo Goto, Sukio Fukuoka, Kenichi Fukuda, Hiroshi Isogai
Votes: 808
20. Three Resurrected Drunkards (1968)
80 min | Action, Comedy
A carefree afternoon at the beach turns into a comic misadventure when three young Japanese men are mistaken for illegal Korean residents.
Director: Nagisa Ôshima | Stars: Kazuhiko Kato, Osamu Kitayama, Norihiko Hashida, Kei Satô
Votes: 703
21. A Town of Love and Hope (1959)
62 min | Drama
A young man runs a scam selling pigeons that always return to his home. A rich girl takes an interest in him and tries to help him find a good job.
Director: Nagisa Ôshima | Stars: Fumio Watanabe, Yuki Tominaga, Kakuko Chino, Yûko Mochizuki
Votes: 608
22.
Century of Cinema (1995–1998)
Episode:
Nihon eiga no hyaku nen
(1995)
60 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Nagisa Oshima explores the first century of Japanese cinema.
Director: Nagisa Ôshima | Stars: Nagisa Ôshima, William B. White
Votes: 379
23. Arena (1975– )
60 min | Documentary
Wide-ranging arts program.
Stars: Gavin Millar, Kenneth Tynan, John Walters, Jonathan Miller
Votes: 320
24. The Catch (1961)
105 min | Drama, War
Towards the end of WWII, a black American pilot is captured and imprisoned by rural Japanese villagers, who await official instructions as to how to proceed with their "catch."
Director: Nagisa Ôshima | Stars: Rentarô Mikuni, Akiko Koyama, Yôko Mihara, Masako Nakamura
Votes: 308
25. Ninja bugei-chô (1967)
123 min | Animation, Action, History
The vengeful son of a murdered feudal lord meets a renegade ninja helping peasants and farmers rebel against Oda Nobunaga's regime in this unusual animated film where still manga drawings are accompanied with sound.
Director: Nagisa Ôshima | Stars: Rokkô Toura, Kei Yamamoto, Hôsei Komatsu, Noriko Matsumoto
Votes: 241
26. Diary of a Yunbogi Boy (1965)
25 min | Documentary, Short
Yunbogi is a child who lives in a slum on the outskirts of Taegu, South Korea. Abandoned by his mother, Yunbogi must care for his two sisters and brother by taking on a series of small jobs.
Director: Nagisa Ôshima | Star: Hôsei Komatsu
Votes: 226
27. Dear Summer Sister (1972)
96 min | Comedy, Drama
Story is about a Tokyo girl looking round Okinawa island for her long-lost brother and finding he is the tourist guide with whom she has had an affair.
Director: Nagisa Ôshima | Stars: Hiromi Kurita, Shôji Ishibashi, Lily, Hôsei Komatsu
Votes: 223
28. The Revolutionary (1962)
100 min | Biography, Drama, History
In the year 1637 in Shimabara of Tokugawa-era Japan, oppressed peasant Christians revolt against the shogunate with the aid of a charismatic Christian rebel leader Shiro Amakusa.
Director: Nagisa Ôshima | Stars: Hashizô Ôkawa, Ryûtarô Ôtomo, Satomi Oka, Rentarô Mikuni
Votes: 206
29. Asu no taiyô (1959)
7 min | Short, Comedy
A playful short film made in the style of a trailer for a fictional feature film that seems to be a spoof of films that were popular in Japan at the time.
Director: Nagisa Ôshima | Stars: Keiko Asami, Kakuko Chino, Kotobuki Hananomoto, Kiku Hojo
Votes: 143
30. De película (1982–1990)
60 min
Stars: Isabel Mestres, José Ruiz, Emilio Linder, María Salerno
Votes: 137
31. Yoiyami semareba (1969)
43 min | Short, Drama
When faced with an accidental gas leak, four bored students turn the situation into a game. The last one to leave the apartment gets a small sum of money.
Director: Akio Jissôji | Stars: Ben Hiura, Yumiko Mitome, Ren Saitô, Kôji Shimizu
Votes: 95
32. Century of Cinema (1995–1998)
60 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Martin Scorsese describes his initial and growing obsession with films from the 1940s and 50s as the art form developed and grew with clips from classics and cult classics.
Stars: Martin Scorsese, Michel Piccoli, Nagisa Ôshima, Allison Anders
Votes: 94
33.
Arena (1975– )
Episode:
The Strange Case of Yukio Mishima
(1985)
55 min | Documentary
About Yukio Mishima that highlights the many known major aspects of his life and personality. Mishima was a pen name he adopted en route to his chosen life as a writer.
Director: Michael McIntyre | Stars: Yukio Mishima, John Hurt, Nobuko Lady Albery, Hirohito
Votes: 91
34. Akira Kurosawa: My Life in Cinema (1993 TV Movie)
118 min | Documentary, Biography
In a long dialogue, Nagisa Oshima interviews Akira Kurosawa, leading him to share his thoughts about filmmaking, his life and works, and numerous anecdotes relating to his films and his various film activities.
Director: Shizuo Satô | Stars: Akira Kurosawa, Nagisa Ôshima
Votes: 84
35. Kyoto, My Mother's Place (1991 TV Movie)
50 min | Documentary
Story of Kyoto: its history, culture, and the role it has played in the director's life and the life of his mother.
Director: Nagisa Ôshima | Stars: Nagisa Ôshima, Ina Funatsuki, Tomi Shimada, Hikohachi Yamamoto
Votes: 83
36. Scenes by the Sea: Takeshi Kitano (2000 TV Movie)
60 min | Documentary, Biography
First major English-language documentary profile of the cult Japanese actor/director, Takeshi Kitano. Featuring interviews with many of his regular contributors and colleagues, the film ... See full summary »
Director: Louis Heaton | Stars: Tatyana Ali, Tom Conti, Omar Epps, Bernard Hill
Votes: 81
37. Music for the Movies: Tôru Takemitsu (1994 TV Movie)
58 min | Documentary, Music
A documentary of the Japanese film composer Toru Takemitsu, featuring interviews and clips from films he scored.
Director: Charlotte Zwerin | Stars: Tôru Takemitsu, Hiroshi Teshigahara, Masaki Kobayashi, Masahiro Shinoda
Votes: 70
38. Vedro (2013– )
30 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
A sketch comedy with a recurring serious segment (usually of horror genre) which evolves around people from the local TV station in the city of Donetsk trying to came of with something to ... See full summary »
Stars: Yaroslav Kozak, Mikhail Bondarev, Leonid Syplyi, Kirill Mieliekiestsev
Votes: 49
39. It's Me Here, Bellett (1964)
27 min | Short
A promotional film for the automobile manufacturer Isuzu Jidosha.
Director: Nagisa Ôshima | Stars: Asao Satô, Sumie Katô, Saburô Bôya, Akiko Koyama
Votes: 44
40.
Non-fikushon gekijô (1962–1968)
Episode:
Wasurerareta kôgun
(1963)
25 min | Documentary, Short
Director: Nagisa Ôshima | Star: Hôsei Komatsu
Votes: 43
41. Revista de cine (1974–1981)
60 min
Stars: Alfonso Eduardo, Alfonso Sánchez, Marisa Paredes, Antonio Drove
Votes: 40
42.
Vedro (2013– )
Episode:
All You Could Possibly Want for Christmas and New Year
(2016)
14 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Christmas Special. Local Television is struggling to have something good on Christmas and New Year's Eve broadcasts despite faulty script, incompetent staff, lack of time and a fired host.
Director: Mykola Yeriomin | Stars: Yaroslav Kozak, Kirill Mieliekiestsev, Mikhail Bondarev, Leonid Syplyi
Votes: 31
43. Berlin (1995)
107 min | Drama
When a woman whose job is to professionally date men disappears suddenly a TV crew who wanted to film a documentary about women like her begin searching for her. Coincidentally, a salaryman... See full summary »
Director: Gô Rijû | Stars: Masatoshi Nagase, Michiko Ameku, Duncan, Masayuki Fukouka
Votes: 27
44. L'envers du décor: Portrait de Pierre Guffroy (1992)
132 min | Documentary
Director: Robert Salis | Stars: Pierre Guffroy, Tarak Ben Ammar, Harrison Ford, Milos Forman
Votes: 27
45. Devotion: A Film About Ogawa Productions (2000)
82 min | Documentary
Devotion investigates the extremely complex and hierarchical relationships among a committed group of filmmakers who dedicated up to 30 years of their lives making films for one man - Ogawa Shinsuke.
Director: Barbara Hammer | Stars: Chiho Fuseya, Hiroo Fuseya, Yukimo Fuseya, Sumiko Haneda
Votes: 26
46. Tantei! Naito sukûpu (1988– )
55 min | Reality-TV
Stars: Takeshi Kitano, Toshiyuki Nishida, Papaya Suzuki, Kunihiro Matsumura
Votes: 24
47. The Oshima Gang: The Making of 'Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence' (1983 Video)
30 min | Documentary, Short
Documentary off behind the scenes of Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence featuring interviews to David Bowie, Tom Conti and Sir Lourens van der Post.
Stars: David Bowie, Tom Conti, Nagisa Ôshima, Jeremy Thomas
Votes: 22
48.
20 seiki awâ (1968–1969)
Episode:
Mô Takutô to bunka daikakumei
(1969)
50 min | Documentary
Director: Nagisa Ôshima | Stars: Hideo Kanze, Zedong Mao, Rokkô Toura
Votes: 19
49. Senba zuru (1953)
122 min | Drama
Director: Kôzaburô Yoshimura | Stars: Michiyo Kogure, Nobuko Otowa, Haruko Sugimura, Masayuki Mori
Votes: 15
50. Cinématon (1972– )
Documentary
Stars: Gérard Courant, Diana Lui, Joseph Morder, Célestine Roussel
Votes: 14