Japanese New Wave
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At the end of the 1950s, young assistant directors at the Shochiku studio, such as Nagisa Ōshima, were promoted fast, and the press called them the "Shochiku Nouvelle Vague". They rejected the gentle family dramas of their elders and filmed angry youth, sex, crime and politics instead.
Many soon left the studios; thus independent companies and the Art Theatre Guild financed the most radical work, from Teshigahara's allegories to Matsumoto's underground cinema.
- Shochiku
- Nagisa Ōshima
- Art Theatre Guild
- Youth and politics
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01
Nagisa Ōshima 1960
青春残酷物語
Cruel Story of Youth
Two young lovers run a scam in Tokyo, in a society that has no place for them.
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02
Shōhei Imamura 1961
豚と軍艦
Pigs and Battleships
Small-time gangsters raise pigs next to the US naval base in Yokosuka.
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03
Hiroshi Teshigahara 1964
砂の女
Woman in the Dunes
Start hereAn insect collector is trapped in a sand pit with a widow, from Kōbō Abe's novel.
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04
Seijun Suzuki 1967
殺しの烙印
Branded to Kill
A hitman, a rival and pure pop absurdity. The studio fired Suzuki for it.
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05
Nagisa Ōshima 1968
絞死刑
Death by Hanging
The execution of a young Korean man fails, and the officials try to make him understand his crime.
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06
Toshio Matsumoto 1969
薔薇の葬列
Funeral Parade of Roses
Tokyo's gay underground, retelling Oedipus between fiction and documentary.