Born in Kyoto in 1932 and died in 2013, Oshima was the leading voice of the Japanese New Wave. He left the Shochiku studio to make provocative, political and formally daring independent films about youth, sexuality, authority and Japan's relationship with Korea.
Filmography
- Cruel Story of Youth (1960)
- Night and Fog in Japan (1960)
- Death by Hanging (1968)
- Diary of a Shinjuku Thief (1968)
- Three Resurrected Drunkards (1968)
- Boy (1969)
- The Ceremony (1971)
- In the Realm of the Senses (1976)
- Empire of Passion (1978)
- Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (1983)
- Taboo (1999)