Known for
7.5A Korean man is sentenced to death in Japan but somehow survives his execution, sending the authorities into a panic about what to do next.
Death by Hanging
1968
6.8Oshima’s magisterial epic, centering on the ambivalent surviving heir of the Sakurada clan, uses ritual and the microcosm of the traditional family to trace the rise and fall of militaristic Japan across several decades.
The Ceremony
1971
6.2Two young women must come to terms with the fact that a man they're deeply linked to is a murdering rapist.
Violence at Noon
1966
7.2A family of four lives off of scams in which they pretend to be injured by automobiles.
Boy
1969
5.0The son of an assassinated feudal lord, in the Muromachi period, attempts to avenge his father's death and meets Kagemaru, a renegade ninja helping peasants and farmers rebel against Oda Nobunaga's regime, all depicted through an experimental form of filming pages from the original manga set to sound.
Band of Ninja
1967
5.7A sex-obsessed woman, a suicidal man she meets on the street, and a gun-crazy wannabe gangster become trapped in an underground hideaway.
Japanese Summer: Double Suicide
1967
Film credits
Behind the camera
7.5A Korean man is sentenced to death in Japan but somehow survives his execution, sending the authorities into a panic about what to do next.
Death by Hanging
1968
6.8Oshima’s magisterial epic, centering on the ambivalent surviving heir of the Sakurada clan, uses ritual and the microcosm of the traditional family to trace the rise and fall of militaristic Japan across several decades.
The Ceremony
1971
6.2Two young women must come to terms with the fact that a man they're deeply linked to is a murdering rapist.
Violence at Noon
1966
7.2A family of four lives off of scams in which they pretend to be injured by automobiles.
Boy
1969
5.0The son of an assassinated feudal lord, in the Muromachi period, attempts to avenge his father's death and meets Kagemaru, a renegade ninja helping peasants and farmers rebel against Oda Nobunaga's regime, all depicted through an experimental form of filming pages from the original manga set to sound.
Band of Ninja
1967
5.7A sex-obsessed woman, a suicidal man she meets on the street, and a gun-crazy wannabe gangster become trapped in an underground hideaway.
Japanese Summer: Double Suicide
1967
6.8A 20-year-old drifter and a precocious 16-year-old girl slowly form a bond in a small town haunted by its wartime past.
The War of the 16 Year Olds
1976

