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RIP Nagisa Oshima

  • 15-01-2013 2:00pm
    #1
    johnny_ultimate
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    Sad to hear the enfant terrible of Japanese cinema has passed away. Oshima is probably best known over here for two very different films: the offbeat POW drama Merry Christmas Mr Lawerence, and the erotically-charged and highly controversial In the Realm of The Senses. Perhaps his finest work though was a loose trilogy of politically charged and highly disillusioned portraits of Japanese youth he made in the early 60s - A Cruel Story of Youth, The Sun's Burial and Night & Fog in Japan.

    He may not have had the sheer technical ingenuity of his peers, but his films were never less than fascinating, and he was a provocateur of the most admirable degree in an infamously conservative film industry. RIP.


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  • #2
    Links234
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    RIP :(


  • #3
    Kinski
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    During the pit section of Dark Knight Rises, I couldn't help but remember Tom Conti and David Bowie in Mr Lawrence.

    RIP


  • #4
    DrumSteve
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    Senses still is one of the more ****ed up things Ive ever seen. Especially since it was based in a true story. And Kitanos performance in Mr Lawrence... brilliant. Then again Im a fairly huge Kitano fan.

    Either way RIP, he definitely pushed the boundries of cinema thats for sure.


  • #5
    SuperGrover
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    Ai No Corrida was one of the first films my now wife and I went to see together. Back in the 90s in the IFC. Took us a little by surprise (heh) but we loved it. Boiled egg, anyone?

    Anyway, sad to hear. Must dig out the DVD and watch again. Great stuff.


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