Last updated January 22, 2013
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| Screen capture of a scene from 愛のコリーダ/Ai no Korīda/In the Realm of the Senses/L'Empire des sens (Nagisa Oshima, 1976) |
Compelling tension in this way is my dramaturgy (doramatsurujii). I compel tension in everyone. It is fine to compel tension in one person, but to compel tension in a great number of people, to increase it by ten-fold, that kind of tension is, I think, what life (seimei) is about.
Nagisa Oshima in 1993. Cited by Isolde Standish, 'Night and Fog in Japan: Fifty Years On', Journal of Japanese and Korean Cinema, 1.2, 2009
Film Studies For Free was very sad to hear news of the death of one of the very greatest Japanese filmmakers Nagisa Oshima (大島 渚, Ōshima Nagisa). Links to tributes and to online studies of his work will continue to appear here over the next hours and days.
Online tributes
- David Hudson, 'DAILY | Nagisa Oshima, 1932 – 2013', Keyframe blog at Fandor, January 15, 2013
- Geoffrey Nowell-Smith, 'NagisaOshima (1932-2013), a Tribute...', Film Studies For Free, January 22, 2013
- Jonathan Rosenbaum, The Sun Also Sets (in memory of Nagisa Oshima, March 31, 1932 — January 15, 2013) at JonathanRosenbaum.com, January 15, 2013
- Ronald Bergan, 'Nagisa Oshima Obituary', The Guardian, January 15, 2013
- Dennis Lim, 'Nagisa Oshima, Iconoclastic Filmmaker, Dies at 80', New York Times, January 15, 2013
- 'Nagisa Oshima', Daily Telegraph, January 15, 2013
Online studies
- Michael Atkinson, 'Be My Knife', Moving Image Source, 2008
- Nöel Burch, To the distant observer: form and meaning in the Japanese cinema (University of Michigan Press, 1979)
- Case Study on "L'Empire Des Sens (In The Realm Of The Senses)", Students British Board of Film Classification
- Joshua M. Ferguson, 'Queer Japanese cinema : a rich and diverse cultural history’s challenge to hegemonic ideologies of gender and sexuality', MA Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2010
- Freda Freiberg, 'The Unkindest Cut of All? Some Reflections on the Recent Cinematic Release of the Uncut Version of Nagisa Oshima's Ai no corrida', Senses of Cinema, Issue 12, Feb-Mar 2001
- Chris Fujiwara, 'The Struggle to Believe', Moving Image Source', 2008
- Andrew Grossman, 'Gohatto-or the End of Oshima Nagisa?', Bright Lights Film Journal, Issue 33, 2001 July
- Oliver Hansen, 'Cruel Story of Youth', Midnight Eye, September 2012
- Go Hirasawa, 'Underground Cinema and the Art Theatre Guild', Midnight Eye, August 2005
- Hikari Hori, 'Representing a Woman’s Story: Explicit Film and the Efficacy of Censorship in Japan', Sarai Reader 2005: Bare Acts
- Alexander Jacoby, ''In the Realm of Oshima', Sight and Sound, September 2009
- Nelson Kim, 'Nagisa Oshima', Senses of Cinema, Issue 31, 2004
- Joshua Land, 'Criminal Minded', Moving Image Source, 2008
- G. C. Macnab, updated by Guo-Juin Hong , 'Nagisa Oshima', Filmreference.com (date unknown)
- Kate Moran, 'Gohatto (Taboo)', Scope, November 2003
- Michael R. (Mike) Mosher, 'A Visit to Ogawa Productions', Leonardo Digital Reviews, July 2005
- Rob Nelson, 'His Will on Film', Moving Image Source, 2008
- Rob Nelson, 'Forty Years Ago Today: Oshima in ‘68', Walker Magazine, 2008
- David Phelps, 'Oshima: Artists and Lovers, Take One (of Four)', MUBI Notebook, December 2008 (Prologue, Take Two, Take Three, Take Four)
- David Phelps, 'The Closed World: The Films of Shinoda Masahiro – Surface play and subterfuge in the movies of a modern classicist', Senses of Cinema, Issue 61, 2011
- James Quandt, 'In the Realm of Oshima: The Films of Japanese Master Nagisa Oshim', Walker Magazine, 2008
- Tony Rayns, ' A Samurai Among Farmers: Nagisa Oshima', Film Comment, September/October 2008
- Tony Rayns, 'Empire of Passion: Love’s Phantom', Criterion Film Essays, April 27, 2009
- Donald Richie, 'In the Realm of the Senses: Some Notes on Oshima and Pornography', Criterion Film Essays, April 30, 2009
- Kari L. Shepardson, 'Fists, Youth, and Protest: Oshima Nagisa's Filmic Rebellion in 1960', MA Thesis, University of British Columbia, December 2002
- Isolde Standish, 'Night and Fog in Japan: Fifty Years On', Journal of Japanese and Korean Cinema, 1.2, 2009
- Philip Strick, 'Love, honour and obey: Film of the Month: Gohatto', Sight and Sound, August 2001
- Hai Leong Toh, 'Sex in Asian Cinema', Kinema, Fall 2000
Also see Film Studies For Free's other, related entries on Japanese Cinema, Kazuo Hara and Japanese Documentary Film, Japanese cinema and animation, Satoshi Kon (1963-2010).
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