Eclipse Series 21:
Oshima’s Outlaw Sixties
By May 20, 2010
DRIVEN TO DESTRUCTION Nagisa Oshima was a destructive force in Japanese cinema—and he wouldn’t have had it any other way. Intent on exploding taboos Read more »
- Japan
- 1967
- 103 minutes
- Color
- 2.35:1
- Japanese
SYNOPSIS: In Oshima’s enigmatic tale, four sexually hungry high school students preparing for their university entrance exams meet up with an inebriated teacher singing bawdy drinking songs. This encounter sets them on a less than academic path. Oshima’s hypnotic, free-form depiction of generational political apathy features stunning color cinematography.
Cast & CreditsOpen
Cast
| Toyoaki Nakamura | Ichirô Araki |
| Takako Tanigawa | Akiko Koyama |
| Katsumi Kushida | Kazuyoshi Kushida |
| Koji Maruyama | Hiroshi Satô |
| Mayuko Fujiwara | Kazuko Tajima |
Credits
| Director | Nagisa Oshima |
| Screenplay | Nagisa Oshima, Toshio Tajima and Takeshi Tamura |
| Cinematography | Akira Takada |
| Editing | Keiichi Uraoka |
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Eclipse Series 21:
News
Kei Sato
1928–2010
By May 11, 2010
The great Japanese actor Kei Sato passed away last week; he was eighty-one years old. You may not recognize Sato’s name, but if you’ve seen a Japanese film in the past fifty Read more »
Press Notes
Press Notes: Oshima’s
Outlaw Sixties
May 28, 2010
The teeming talent and copious output of Japanese filmmaker Nagisa Oshima may have resulted in a body of work that’s stylistically mercurial, but his thematic Read more »
