Nagisa Ōshima  

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Nagisa Oshima (born March 31, 1932 in Kyoto, is a Japanese film director.

1970s

Oshima is most famed for his provocative 1976 film In the Realm of the Senses (Ai no korida), a film based on a true story of fatal sexual obsession in 1930s Japan. Oshima, a prolific critic of censorship and his contemporary Akira Kurosawa's humanism, was determined that the film should feature hardcore pornography and thus the film's undeveloped film cans had to be transported to France to be developed and an uncensored version of the movie is still unavailable in Japan.

In his 1978 companion film to In the Realm of the Senses, Empire of Passion (Ai no borei), Oshima took a more restrained approach to depicting the sexual passions of the two lovers driven to murder, and the film won the 1978 Cannes Film Festival award for best director.

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