Tag: Nagisa Ōshima

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Self-Efface Yourself! The Fragmented Identities in Ōshima’s The Ceremony

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|Alex Kies| Lots of interesting things happen at weddings and funerals. It’s a shame to miss any of it. – Ritsuko Although he is a key figure of Japanese New Wave, and his final films were consciously West-facing, Ōshima Nagisa never quite took off in the West like his friend Kurosawa Akira… Continue reading

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Young Boy, Old Soul

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|Terry Serres| The 1969 film Boy (Shonen) by Nagisa Ōshima is something of a minor masterpiece, a work that is undeniably moving but still hard to crack, as inscrutable as its young protagonist’s impassive gaze. The boy in question is Toshio Omura, played by Tetsuo Abe… Continue reading