num_pages: 308
description: Nagisa Oshima is generally regarded as the most important Japanese film director after Kurosawa and is one of Japan's most productive and celebrated postwar artists. His early films represent the Japanese New Wave at its zenith and the films he has made since (including In the Realm of the Senses and Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence) have won international acclaim. The more than 40 writings that make up this intellectual autobiography reveal a conjunction of personal candor and political commitment. They trace in vivid and carefully articulated detail the development of Oshima's theory and practice.
language: English
title: Cinema, Censorship, and the State: The Writings of Nagisa Oshima, 1956-1978
publisher: MIT Press (MA)