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San Sebastian Film Festival 2013

Retrospective dedicated to the Japanese filmmaker. The retrospective programmed by the San Sebastian Festival includes all of Oshima´s films for the big screen, including the titles below.

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Empire Of Passion Empire Of Passion
Empire Of Passion and Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence
Empire Of Passion (Ai No Borei) (Country: Japan; Year: 1978; Director: Nagisa Ôshima; Writer: Itoko Namura, Nagisa Ôshima; Stars: Tatsuya Fuji, Kazuko Yoshiyuki, Takahiro Tamura, Takuzo Kawatani, Akiyoshi Fujiwara, Masami Hasegawa, Kenzô Kawarasaki, Tatsuya Kimura, Eizo Kitamura, Akiko Koyama, Osugi, Sumie Sasaki, Takaaki Sugiura, Taiji Tonoyama)
A soldier embarks on an affair with an older married woman.
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Gohatto (Taboo) (Country: Japan; Year: 1999; Director: Nagisa Oshima; Writer: Nagisa Oshima; Stars: Takashi Kitano, Ryuhei Matsuda, Shinji Takeda, Tadanobu Asano and Koji Matoba)
A period tale of Samarai warriors and their obsessions with honour, love and death.
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In The Realm Of The Senses (Ai No Korîda) (Country: Japan; Year: 1976; Director: Nagisa Ôshima; Writer: Nagisa Ôshima; Stars: Tatsuya Fuji, Eiko Matsuda, Aoi Nakajima, Yasuko Matsui, Meika Seri, Kanae Kobayashi, Taiji Tonoyama, Kyôji Kokonoe, Naomi Shiraishi, Komikichi Hori, Kikuhei Matsunoya, Akiko Koyama, Yuriko Azuma, Rei Minami, Machiko Aoki)
A man begins an affair with one of his servants.
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Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence (Country: Japan; Year: 1983; Director: Nagisa Ôshima; Writer: Nagisa Ôshima, Paul Mayersberg, based on the novel by Laurens Van der Post; Stars: David Bowie, Tom Conti, Ryûichi Sakamoto, Takeshi Kitano, Jack Thompson, Johnny Okura, Alistair Browning, James Malcolm, Chris Broun, Yûya Uchida, Ryûnosuke Kaneda, Takashi Naitô, Tamio Ishikura, Rokko Toura, Kan Mikami)
Study of brutality in a Japanese PoW camp
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