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Dear Summer Sister 1972 star_border 4.3
14-year-old Sunaoko travels from Tokyo to Naha, Okinawa, with her father’s young fiancée Momoko in search of her half-brother whom she has never met. Their guide, a beer-guzzling ex-soldier, takes them to the locale’s tourist attractions, quickly delving into the underlying scars of the island’s wartime history.

The Ceremony 1971 star_border 7
Oshima’s magisterial epic, centering on the ambivalent surviving heir of the Sakurada clan, uses ritual and the microcosm of the traditional family to trace the rise and fall of militaristic Japan across several decades.

The Man Who Left His Will on Film 1970 star_border 6
A metaphysical mystery involving a university student's camera getting stolen, and the thief then committing suicide.

Boy 1969 star_border 7.3
A family of four lives off of scams in which they pretend to be injured by automobiles.

Diary of a Shinjuku Thief 1969 star_border 4.6
In Tokyo's Shinjuku district, the lives of a young man prone to theft, a young woman he meets at a bookstore, and a kabuki actor intersect.

Three Resurrected Drunkards 1968 star_border 5.5
Three students spend their holidays at the seaside where they are mistaken for Koreans, a minority which is looked down on in Japan. The action develops into a crime story.

Death by Hanging 1968 star_border 7.4
A Korean man is sentenced to death in Japan but somehow survives his execution, sending the authorities into a panic about what to do next.

Japanese Summer: Double Suicide 1967 star_border 5.6
A sex-obsessed woman, a suicidal man she meets on the street, and a gun-crazy wannabe gangster become trapped in an underground hideaway.

Sing a Song of Sex 1967 star_border 5.7
Four sexually hungry high school students preparing for their university entrance exams meet up with an inebriated teacher singing bawdy drinking songs. This encounter sets them on a less than academic path.

Band of Ninja 1967 star_border 5
A young boy joins a band of ninja during a peasant uprising, all depicted through an experimental form of filming pages from the original manga set to sound.

Violence at Noon 1966 star_border 6.1
Two young women must come to terms with the fact that a man they're deeply linked to is a murdering rapist.

Diary of Yunbogi 1965 star_border 6.1
This ethereal montage of still images with darkly somber undertones, Yunbogi’s Diary is based on photographs that Oshima took during his two-month research trip to South Korea in 1965 during which he was haunted by his encounters with impoverished street children in Seoul. The voice-over comprises diary entries from a six-year-old Korean boy and Oshima’s own reflections on Japanese-Korean relations, a controversial subject that he revisited in his later films Sing a Song of Sex and Death by Hanging.

Pleasures of the Flesh 1965 star_border 5.7
A corrupt businessman blackmails the lovelorn reprobate Atsushi into watching over his suitcase full of embezzled cash while he serves a jail sentence.