Nagisa OSHIMA 大島渚

Band Of Ninja

忍者武芸帳

Nippon Animation   ³ 

This year's Japan Visualmedia Translation Academy (JVTA) Special Screening features an amazing cinematic experience. In BAND OF NINJA, Nagisa OSHIMA transformed a manga classic into a “motion comic” by his groundbreaking technique of montage and sound editing. Panel by panel, Sanpei SHIRATO's drawings come to life and take us to the world of legendary ninja Kagemaru.

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忍者武芸帳
Ninja bugeicho

Japan 1967

123 minutes

Director
Nagisa OSHIMA

Script
Nagisa OSHIMA, Mamoru SASAKI

Cinematography
Akira TAKADA

Music
Hikaru HAYASHI

About Nagisa OSHIMA
大島渚

Nagisa OSHIMA (1932 – 2013) studied political history at the University of Kyoto. He then became a film critic and later editor-in-chief of a film magazine, before learning his craft as an assistant director at Shochiku Studios. With his own production company Sozosha, he created pioneering films in the field of Japanese New Wave cinema, making his international breakthrough with IN THE REALM OF THE SENSES (AI NO CORRIDA) in 1976.