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Japanese director Nagisa Oshima dies

Published: January 22, 2013 8:16 PM
By REBECCA TROUNSON. Los Angeles Times  

Nagisa Oshima, an iconoclastic Japanese director and screenwriter best known in the West for the sexually explicit films "In the Realm of the Senses" and "Empire of Passion," has died at a hospital near Tokyo, his production company announced. He was 80.

Widely considered one of his country's greatest filmmakers, Oshima died Jan. 15 of pneumonia, according to the announcement from Oshima Productions,...

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