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
- 1968
- 80 minutes
- Color
- 2.35:1
- Japanese
SYNOPSIS: A trio of bumbling young men frolic at the beach. While they swim, their clothes are stolen and replaced with new outfits. Donning these, they are mistaken for undocumented Koreans and end up on the run from comically outraged authorities. A cutting commentary on Japan’s treatment of its Korean immigrants, this is Nagisa Oshima at both his most politically engaged and madcap.
Cast & CreditsOpen
Cast
| O-noppo | Kazuhiko Kato |
| Chibi | Norihiko Hashida |
| Chu-noppo | Osamu Kitayama |
| Korean soldier | Kei Satô |
| Nechan | Mako Midori |
Credits
| Director | Nagisa Oshima |
| Screenplay | Nagisa Oshima, Masao Adachi, Mamoru Sasaki and Takeshi Tamura |
| Music | Hikaru Hayashi |
| Cinematography | Yasuhiro Yoshioka |
| Editing | Keiichi Uraoka |
| Production design | Yoshi Toda |
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Film Essays
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 »
