Jan 17, 2013

Ian Buruma on 'Ai-no Borei (Empire of Passion)'

by Ian Buruma

Nagisa Oshima is the best film director in Japan still making good movies. There are other good directors (Kon Ichikawa), but they are reduced to doing company hack-work. Oshima can still do the films he likes, partly because he gets financial backing in France ...