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
- 99 minutes
- Black and White
- 2.35:1
- Japanese
SYNOPSIS: A sex-obsessed young woman, a suicidal man she meets on the street, a gun-crazy wannabe gangster—these are just three of the irrational, oddball anarchists trapped in an underground hideaway in Oshima’s devilish, absurdist portrait of what he deemed the death drive in Japanese youth culture.
Cast & CreditsOpen
Cast
| Keiko Sakurai | |
| Kei Sato | |
| Rokko Toura |
Credits
| Director | Nagisa Oshima |
| Screenplay | Nagisa Oshima, Mamoru Sasaki and Takeshi Tamura |
| Producer | Masayuki Nakajima |
| Editing | Keiichi Uraoka |
| Cinematography | Yasuhiro Yoshioka |
| Music | Hikaru Hayashi |
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Eclipse Series 21:
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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 »
