Category: Movie • Genre: Comedy, Crime • Country: Japan • Language: Japanese
Director
Nagisa Ôshima
Writer
Michinori Fukao, Mamoru Sasaki, Tsutomu Tamura
Cast
Kei Satô, Do-yun Yu, Fumio Watanabe
Plot
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.
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama, History • Country: Japan, France • Language: Japanese
Director
Nagisa Ôshima
Writer
Ryôtarô Shiba, Nagisa Ôshima
Cast
Takeshi Kitano, Ryûhei Matsuda, Shinji Takeda
Plot
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.
Category: Movie • Genre: Crime, Drama • Country: Japan • Language: Japanese
Director
Nagisa Ôshima
Writer
Fûtarô Yamada, Nagisa Ôshima
Cast
Katsuo Nakamura, Mariko Kaga, Yumiko Nogawa
Plot
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.
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama • Country: Japan • Language: Japanese
Director
Nagisa Ôshima
Writer
Toshirô Ishidô, Nagisa Ôshima
Cast
Miyuki Kuwano, Fumio Watanabe, Masahiko Tsugawa
Plot
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.
Category: Movie • Genre: Crime, Drama • Country: Japan • Language: Japanese, English
Director
Nagisa Ôshima
Writer
Mamoru Sasaki, Tsutomu Tamura, Nagisa Ôshima
Cast
Kei Satô, Keiko Sakurai, Rokkô Toura
Plot
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.
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama • Country: Japan • Language: Japanese
Director
Nagisa Ôshima
Writer
Tomomichi Soeda, Tsutomu Tamura, Mamoru Sasaki
Cast
Ichirô Araki, Kazuko Tajima, Jûzô Itami
Plot
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.
Category: Movie • Genre: Comedy, Drama • Country: Japan • Language: Japanese
Director
Nagisa Ôshima
Writer
Mamoru Sasaki, Tsutomu Tamura, Nagisa Ôshima
Cast
Kenzô Kawarasaki, Atsuko Kaku, Atsuo Nakamura
Plot
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.
