Nagisa Ōshima (1932–2013) was a Japanese film director associated with the Japanese New Wave, known for provocative, formally audacious films such as In the Realm of the Senses and The Ceremony.

Born 1932; died 2013. Key figure of the Japanese New Wave. Noted for films that provoked censorship debates and challenged conventions of sexuality and ritual in cinema.

Two DeBaser reviews (both by Anatoly) praise Ōshima's bold, provocative cinema. In the Realm of the Senses is highlighted for its radical erotic realism and censorship history. The Ceremony is described as a major, ritual-focused masterpiece of postwar Japanese art-house cinema.

For:Fans of art-house and Japanese cinema; students and readers interested in controversial and postwar film.

 In the Realm of the Senses is a film that, in its exceptional reconstruction of time and environment, in its rigid indoor framing, in its formal and chromatic refinement, in the rawness of how it shows real sexual relationships, possession, and possessiveness, alienation from the social context in the name of an all-encompassing erotic charge brought to the extreme consequences, consisting of increasingly daring and "sick" practices, is capable of carving a groove in the so-called erotic filmography, hitting much harder than Last Tango in Paris and resulting powerfully, in its timeless affair, even today in the times of von Trier and Noé.

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 The Ceremony is among his most important and representative works, a film that sums up his poetics, among his major commercial successes of the time, and represents like few other things the sense of collective rituality, whether it be a funeral or a wedding (which represent two sides of the same coin and which, not coincidentally, both are celebrated in the form of a ceremony, precisely).

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