Ōzu's Rebel Children: Filmmakers of the Japanese New Wave
The Radical Cinema of Nagisa Ōshima, Shōhei Imamura, Seijun Suzuki and Hiroshi Teshigahara
The last decade of Yasujiro Ōzu’s career—1953-1963—coincided with the first decade of the Japanese New Wave, a sweeping movement that espoused radical change not only in cinema but all the visual arts—as well as music, dance, flower arranging and performance art. Though not as well known as its French counterpart, the Japanese New Wave was broader, more…
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