New on Video: ‘Death by Hanging’
Death by Hanging is a phenomenally experimental work, a brilliantly conceived way to explore issues of capital punishment, Japanese identity, and the prejudices that create sociocultural barriers.
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‘Pleasures of the Flesh’ kicked off Nagisa Oshima’s ‘Outlaw ’60s’
Pleasures of the Flesh Written and Directed by Nagisa Oshima Japan, 1965 Nagisa Oshima became well known for the sexually provocative In the Realm of the Senses and how he tortured David Bowie as a British POW during World War II in Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence, but Oshima also came to be known as The …
‘Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence’ casts Bowie in an unusual treatise on war
Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence Directed by Nagisa Ôshima United Kingdom/Japan, 1983 David Bowie’s golden hair stands out on the burnt island of Rarotonga. He doesn’t fit into the landscape. He doesn’t fit with his Japanese captors. He certainly doesn’t fit with his fellow imprisoned British soldiers. Like Terence Stamp in Pasolini’s Teorema, Bowie’s Jack Celliers …