100 Years of Japanese Cinema
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Nagisa Oshima
William B White
Kunio Ando
Masashi Chikamori
Satoshi Ito
Bob Last
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Presented by helmer Nagisa Oshima, a collection of personal views on Japanese cinema by various noted filmmakers.
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Nagisa Oshima
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Released in United States 1995
Released in United States May 1995
Shown at Cannes Film Festival (special screening) May 17-28, 1995.
"The Century of Cinema" is a series of personal documentaries commissioned by the BFI to celebrate the centenary of film. For this series, some of the world's leading filmmakers were invited to provide individual interpretations of the history and development of cinema in their countries. The result is a fascinating look at highly disparate national cinemas and 100 years of film around the globe.
The participating filmmakers include: Martin Scorsese & Michael Henry Wilson (USA), George Miller (Australia), Stephen Frears & Mike Dibb (England), Shu Kei (China), Anne-Marie Mieville & Jean-Luc Godard (France), Edgar Reitz (Germany), Mrinal Sen (India), Donald Taylor Black (Ireland), Bernardo Bertolucci & Enrico Ghezze (Italy), Jang Sun-woo (Korea), Nelson Pereira dos Santos (Latin America), Sam Neill & Julie Rymer (New Zealand).
The participating filmmakers include: Mohamad Tazi (North Africa), Pavel Lozinski (Poland), Stig Bjorkman (Scandinavia), Jean Pierre Bekolo (Sub-Saharan Africa) Sergei Selyanov (USSR/CIS), and others.
Released in United States 1995
Released in United States May 1995 (Shown at Cannes Film Festival (special screening) May 17-28, 1995.)
