#sozosha

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Nagisa Oshima

- Death by Hanging

1968

[coppercookie]

Band of ninja (1967)

This barely counts as a animated film but I'll count it since it is made up of drawn pictures. A young man looking to avenge his father's death, joins a band of ninja assisting peasants and farmers to uprise against shadowclan's rule.

Honestly I took the summary from Wikipedia and imdb because it's hard to follow. Characters and plot points kind of pop in and out of the story ranging from a fishman that isn't brought up again after he's been introduced to a horde of rats appearing out of nowhere to eat everything. Some characters will loose parts of their body but have them back later for some reason? This could be from the subtitles not being translated well enough but I thought it was worth mentioning.

As you can tell this is just the manga panel per panel with sound laid on top. The artstyle is pretty but with it being just zoomed in manga panels you loose out on things like the page layout.

Band of ninja is a great example of why direct adaptations from one media to another doesn't work, certain scenes need to be cut so it flows better and isn't too longwinded. I'd just read the manga itself if you're interested (especially since the movie is dragged out to 2 hours). Besides that I think there are more entertaining anime/manga with gore and engaging story.

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[lumchan]

will we ever get sozo's real name themn?

dunno...........................................will you?

[ketunpentu]

The more I hear about Sozosha the more I love him

A @bakughoulz oc!

[badgaymovies]

The Ceremony (Gishiki) (1971)

The Ceremony (Gishiki)

NAGISA OSHIMA

Bil’s rating (out of 5): BBBB.  Japan, 1971.  Art Theatre Guild, Daiei Studios, Sozosha.  Screenplay by Mamoru Sasaki, Tsutomu Tamura, Nagisa Oshima.  Cinematography by Toichiro Narushima.  Produced by Kinshirô Kuzui, Takuji Yamaguchi.  Music by Toru Takemitsu.  Production Design by Shigenori Shimoishizaka. Film Editing by Keiichi Uraoka.

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[shihlun]

Nagisa Oshima

- Diary of a Shinjuku Thief

1969

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Nagisa Oshima

- Diary of a Shinjuku Thief

1969

[shihlun]

Nagisa Oshima

- Dear Summer Sister

1972

[shihlun]

Nagisa Oshima

- Band of Ninja

1967

[shihlun]

Nagisa Oshima

- Death by Hanging

1968

[shihlun]

Nagisa Oshima

- Death by Hanging

1968

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Nagisa Oshima

- Sing a Song of Sex 

1967

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Nagisa Oshima

- The Catch

1961

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Nagisa Osihma

- The Ceremony

1971

Design: Kiyoshi Awazu

[shihlun]

Nagisa Oshima

- Dear Summer Sister

1972

[shihlun]

The most prevalent anti–Vietnam War motif is the recurring reference to the infamous photograph taken by Eddie Adams on February 1, 1968, which came to be known as “General Nguyễn Ngọc Loan executing a Việt Cộng prisoner in Saigon.” In the photo General Nguyễn stands to the right (screen left) of a Việt Cộng prisoner, pointing a handgun at his head. This image is restaged many times in the film, from the boys using their fingers for a gun (as early in the film as when they are on the beach in the first sequence) to pointing the gun at the stowaway Korean corporal, to the realistic mural depicting the photo-image at the end with the execution of the Korean corporal staged in the background. Considering that the film was released only two months after the photo was published one can feel the white-hot immediacy of Oshima’s film.

- David Desser / “Oshima, Korea, and 1968” (1968 and Global Cinema, 2018)

Nagisa Oshima

- Three Resurrected Drunkards

1968