The follow-up to Nagisa Oshima's notorious In The Realm of the Senses, this sublime period drama also stars the brilliant Tatsuya Fuji as an ex-soldier and adulterer whose ardent affair with the wife an elderly rickshaw driver enamours the pair in mys...
Empire of the Passions (1978)
Nagisa Oshima
Takahiro Tamura, Kazuko Yoshiyuki, Tatsuya Fuji
Drama, Horror, General Drama, General Horror, Foreign, Japanese
This powerful prisoner-of-war drama features a stunning cast - including David Bowie in one of his greatest roles - and is the first English-language film by acclaimed Japanese director Nagisa Oshima (in the Realm of the Senses).Set in Java at a Japanese ...
Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence (1983)
Nagisa Oshima
David Bowie, Takeshi Kitano, Tom Conti, Ryuichi Sakamoto
Action & Adventure, Drama, Military & War, Military Drama
Banned around the world, Oshima's extraordinary tale of sexual obsession remains equally shocking over 30 years since it's notorious release - this explicit study of love and death was so controversial in Japan that cans of film were smuggled to F...
In The Realm Of The Senses (1976)
Nagisa Oshima
Tatsuya Fuji,Eiko Matsuda,Aoi Nakajima
Romantic Drama,Foreign,Japanese,General Romance,General Drama,Romance,Drama
In the crucible of war, men can kill without remorse. But the pressures of violence can also foster a bond between enemies - even between captive and jailer - until the lines of their conflict are obscured.So it is for Lieutenant-Colonel John Lawrence (T...
Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (1983)
Nagisa Oshima
David Bowie, Jack Thompson, Takeshi Kitano, Tom Conti, Ryuichi Sakamoto
Drama,Military & War,Military Drama,General Drama,Action & Adventure
