Nagisa Oshima, 1932-2013

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• skelly says:

  January 15, 2013 at 12:27 pm

  R.I.P. – a true giant.

• David Ehrenstein says:

  January 15, 2013 at 1:18 pm

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtyG5jvx2gg
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6G0AqFp1_eM

• Oliver_C says:

  January 15, 2013 at 4:25 pm

  I got to see Oshima’s final fim, Gohatto, actu­ally in Japan, in early 2000 — which is to say, smack-bang in the middle of what turned out being a brief, mod­est but undeni­able golden age of Japanese cinema (say, from The Eel, Hana-Bi and Princess Mononoke to Blood and Bones, Howl’s Moving Castle and Nobody Knows).

• Randy Byers says:

  January 15, 2013 at 7:11 pm

  One of my strangest film exper­i­ences ever was see­ing one of Oshima’s films in a theat­er in Berlin in 1990. I think it was the ori­gin­al lan­guage with German sub­titles, but wheth­er it was sub­titled or dubbed, my German was­n’t good enough to under­stand much of the dia­logue. (I don’t speak any Japanese oth­er than loan words.) The film was extraordin­ar­ily bizarre. It was only later that I figured out it was IN THE REALM OF THE SENSES. I still haven’t seen it with English sub­titles. I’m reluct­ant to modi­fy that ori­gin­al weird expos­ure to it, which seemed entirely appro­pri­ate some­how, redu­cing me to my senses as it were.

• David Ehrenstein says:

  January 15, 2013 at 8:41 pm

  In the Realm of the Senses and Merry Christmas Mr.Lawrence are Oshima’s best known films in the west. But to get a handle on the scope and depth of his career one must see The Man Who Lift His Will On Film, Dear Summer Sister, Death by Hanging, Diary of a Shinjuku Thief, Boy, The Ceremony andThree Ressurrected Drunkards

• J. Priest says:

  January 16, 2013 at 2:25 pm

  The Ceremony’s play­ing tonight at MoMA and again this week­end. Otherwise, it’s not avail­able on DVD in the U.S.

• Michael Webster says:

  January 16, 2013 at 3:32 pm

  I’ll always appre­ci­ate “In the Realm of the Senses” as it got me laid a long, long time ago. But then the rela­tion­ship went south and the film, par­tic­u­larly the end­ing, star­ted giv­ing her oth­er ideas so I had to get away fast. Nevertheless, a real achievement.

• Jim Gerow says:

  January 16, 2013 at 5:15 pm

  Diary of a Shinjuku Thief is also play­ing Thursday night at MoMA.

• Victor Morton says:

  January 17, 2013 at 5:33 pm

  Mr. Webster:
  When I saw IN THE REALM OF THE SENSES, I was in the habit of going to most art movies with a female friend. I decided to go to this one alone.

• Scott Is NOT A Professional Film Critic says:

  January 25, 2013 at 2:21 am

  One won­ders if Eiko Matsuda is some­where in the bowels of obscur­ity, mourn­ing this occasion.

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• Cobus says:

  February 10, 2013 at 12:08 pm

  Just FIY, the Japanese title in the photo cap­tion is mis­spelled. It is sup­posed to be “Seishun zankoku monogatari”

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