Nagisa Ōshima
Series
Criterion collection volume 535
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Based on a true story of author Laurens van der Post's experiences as a WWII prisoner of war.
Series
Criterion collection volume 467
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
日本語
Description
1895, Japan. In a small village, Seki is the wife of the litter carrier Gisaburo. Seki has an affair with Toyiji, a man twenty-six years younger her. Toyiji becomes jealous of Gisaburo and plots with Seki to kill him. After Gisaburo has had plenty of sake to drink and goes to bed, the two strangle Gisaburo and dump his body inside a well in the woods. Seki tells the locals that Gisaburo moved to Tokyo to work. Finally, three years later, suspicions...
Series
Criterion collection volume 535
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Based on a true story of author Laurens van der Post's experiences as a WWII prisoner of war.
Series
Criterion collection volume 466
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
日本語
Description
Based on the real incident of Abe Sada. An ex-prostitute works in a hotel where she begins an obssessive affair with the owner.
Series
Criterion collection volume 798
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
日本語
Description
A Korean man is sentenced to death in Japan but survives his execution, sending the authorities into a panic about what to do next. At once disturbing and oddly amusing, Oshima's constantly surprising film is a subversive and surreal indictment of both capital punishment and the treatment of Korean immigrants in his country.
Series
Criterion collection volume 798
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
日本語
Description
A Korean man is sentenced to death in Japan but survives his execution, sending the authorities into a panic about what to do next. At once disturbing and oddly amusing, Oshima's constantly surprising film is a subversive and surreal indictment of both capital punishment and the treatment of Korean immigrants in his country.
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
日本語
Description
Collection includes: Pleasures of the Flesh (Etsuraku, 1965, color); Violence at Noon (Hakuchu No Torima, 1966, B & W); Sing a Song of Sex (Nihon Shunka-Ko, 1967, color); Japanese Summer: Double Suicide (Muri Shin Ju: Nihon No Natsu, 1967, B & W); and Three Resurrected Drunkards (Kaette Kita Yopparai, 1968, color).