Band of Ninja
- JVTA Special Screening
６月１日（日）, 5:15 p.m. Naxoshalle Kino - Ninja bugeicho
忍者武芸帳 - 監督：大島渚
- Script: Nagisa OSHIMA, Mamoru SASAKI
- Production: Sozosha
- Camera: Akira TAKADA
- Music: Hikaru HAYASHI
- World Sales: Oshima Productions
- Voices: Shoichi OZAWA, Kei YAMAMOTO, Akiko KOYAMA, Kei SATO, Noriko MATSUMOTO
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.
Director biography
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.
Filmography (selection)
1959 A Town of Hope (Ai to kibo no machi); 1960 The Cruel Story of Youth (Seishun zankoku monogatari); 1968 Death by Hanging (Koshikei); 1976 In the Realm of the Senses (Ai no corrida); 1983 Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (Senjo no Meri Kurisumasu); 1999 Taboo (Gohatto)
