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Nagisa Oshima, Iconoclastic Filmmaker, Dies at 80

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/16/movie ... .html?_r=0

I haven't seen much of his work, but his 1983 film Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence is worth seeing if you haven't already done so (his final film, 1999's Gohatto, is too).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merry_Chri ... r_Lawrence

Also, Oshima did a lengthy interview with Akira Kurosawa that's on the Criterion Seven Samurai Blu-Ray/DVD (that I admittedly haven't watched in its entirety yet).

I saw In the Ream of the Senses in my Japanese Films class in college. But I don't remember much of the film but I do remember they had to get it processed outside of the country. In that class we also watched Boy, which I emotionally remember being a sad but powerful film. He was a very political film maker.

I always admire film makers as storytellers. Thanks for letting us know of his passing.

Peace, maka