Nagisa Oshima was a Japanese film director, writer and left-wing activist, born in Tamano, Okayama, on 31 March 1932 and died on 15 January 2013. He is best known for his fiction films, of which he directed 23 features in a career spanning from 1959 to 1999, and he is regarded as one of the greatest Japanese filmmakers. Within this atlas Nagisa Ōshima is credited on In the Realm of the Senses. These details are drawn from the English Wikipedia article Nagisa Ōshima, which this entry cites as its source.
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Nagisa Ōshima (大島 渚, Ōshima Nagisa; March 31, 1932, January 15, 2013) was a Japanese film director, writer, and left-wing activist who is best known for his fiction films, of which he directed 23 features in a career spanning from 1959 to 1999.
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In his 1978 companion film to In the Realm of the Senses, Empire of Passion, Ōshima took a more restrained approach to depicting the sexual passions of the two lovers driven to murder, and the film won the 1978 Cannes Film Festival award for best director.
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In the Realm of the Senses (Japanese: 愛のコリーダ, lit. 'Bullfight of Love', French: L'Empire des sens) is a 1976 erotic art film written and directed by Nagisa Ōshima.
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