JAPANESE NEW WAVE

By: Anton William​s

The Japanese New Wave, or Nuberu bagu (ヌーベルバーグ), is the term for a group of Japanese filmmakers emerging from the late 1950s through the early 1970s. The term also refers to their work, in a loose creative movement within Japanese film, from a similar time period.

KEY FILMS ASSOCIATED WITH THE JAPANESE NEW WAVE
In chronological order from the earliest.

• 01
  Punishment Room
  Kon Ichikawa
• 02
  Crazed Fruit
  Kô Nakahira
• 03
  Kisses
  Yasuzo Masumura
• 04
  Giants and Toys
  Yasuzo Masumura
• 05
  A Town of Love and Hope
  Nagisa Ôshima
• 06
  The Sun's Burial
  Nagisa Ôshima
• 07
  Night and Fog in Japan
  Nagisa Ôshima
• 08
  Cruel Story of Youth
  Nagisa Ôshima
• 09
  The Naked Island
  Kaneto Shindô
• 10
  Bad Boys
  Susumu Hani
• 11
  Pigs and Battleships
  Shôhei Imamura
• 12
  The Rebel
  Nagisa Ôshima
• 13
  Pitfall
  Hiroshi Teshigahara
• 14
  She and He
  Susumu Hani
• 15
  The Insect Woman
  Shôhei Imamura
• 16
  Intentions of Murder
  Shôhei Imamura
• 17
  Pale Flower
  Masahiro Shinoda
• 18
  Assassination
  Masahiro Shinoda
• 19
  Tattooed Life
  Seijun Suzuki
• 20
  Woman in the Dunes
  Hiroshi Teshigahara
• 21
  With Beauty and Sadness
  Masahiro Shinoda
• 22
  A Story Written with Water
  Yoshishige Yoshida
• 23
  The Pornographers
  Shôhei Imamura
• 24
  Violence at Noon
  Nagisa Ôshima
• 25
  Fighting Elegy
  Seijun Suzuki
• 26
  Tokyo Drifter
  Seijun Suzuki
• 27
  The Face of Another
  Hiroshi Teshigahara
• 28
  A Man Vanishes
  Shôhei Imamura
• 29
  Band of Ninja
  Nagisa Ôshima
• 30
  Sing a Song of Sex
  Nagisa Ôshima
• 31
  Branded to Kill
  Seijun Suzuki
• 32
  Nanami: The Inferno of First Love
  Susumu Hani
• 33
  Profound Desires of the Gods
  Shôhei Imamura
• 34
  Death by Hanging
  Nagisa Ôshima
• 35
  Three Resurrected Drunkards
  Nagisa Ôshima
• 36
  The Ruined Map
  Hiroshi Teshigahara
• 37
  Eros plus massacre
  Yoshishige Yoshida
• 38
  Funeral Parade of Roses
  Toshio Matsumoto
• 39
  Diary of a Shinjuku Thief
  Nagisa Ôshima
• 40
  Boy
  Nagisa Ôshima
• 41
  Double Suicide
  Masahiro Shinoda
• 42
  Go, Go Second Time Virgin
  Kôji Wakamatsu
• 43
  History of Postwar Japan As Told by a Bar Hostess
  Shôhei Imamura
• 44
  The Man Who Left His Will on Film
  Nagisa Ôshima
• 45
  Emperor Tomato Ketchup
  Shûji Terayama
• 46
  The Ceremony
  Nagisa Ôshima
• 47
  Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets
  Shûji Terayama
• 48
  Summer Soldiers
  Hiroshi Teshigahara
• 49
  Dear Summer Sister
  Nagisa Ôshima
• 50
  Coup d'état
  Yoshishige Yoshida
• 51
  Pastoral: To Die in the Country
  Shûji Terayama
• 52
  In the Realm of the Senses
  Nagisa Ôshima