Making of Shōnen and Nagisa Oshima’s Radical Approach to Filmmaking
Behind the Scenes of a Groundbreaking Film That Shaped Japanese Cinema
In this article, I will discuss the production background of Shōnen (Boy, 1969), a key work that propelled Nagisa Oshima to global recognition.
Although the content of this film and Nagisa Oshima himself are widely known in the West, few opportunities exist to learn about the production background, largely because so few related te…