Tag: nagisaoshima
NYC Weekend Picks, January 13-16: Bowie, Rohmer, Spielberg, ROCKY and CREED, and More
This week, we feature an especially rewarding set of recommendations for viewings over the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday weekend. And I can't help but note the irony of celebrating the life of one of the greatest Americans who ever...
Blu-ray Review: Criterion Tackles the Death Penalty with Nagisa Oshima's DEATH BY HANGING
The Criterion Collection has been good to Japanese provocateur Nagisa Oshima. His celebrated, explicit-sex shocker In The Realm of the Senses (along with its sorta-sequel, Empire of Passion) have seen disc from the company, and Criterion has also released a...
Japanese Provocateur Ôshima Nagisa Passes Away at 80
Ôshima Nagisa, the brilliant, transgressive director behind films like In the Realm of the Senses, Cruel Story of Youth and Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence, has passed away at the age of 80. He was most well-known for the explicit, controversial...
