EFP 74: Professor Jennifer Coates on Nagisa Oshima

<div><div><div>On this episode of the podcast, host Dr Pasquale Iannone goes back to Japan in 1969 to discuss a lesser-known film from the iconoclastic New Wave filmmaker <b>Nagisa Oshima</b>. Oshima is best-known for subversive, controversial works such as the erotic drama <i>In The Realm of the Senses</i> (1976) and the David Bowie-starring war film <i>Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence</i> (1983)</div><div><br></div><div>The episode focuses on <i><b>Boy</b></i><b> (1969)</b> an earlier picture from Oshima which is based on a remarkable true story. The film follows a con artist couple who travel across Japan with their two young sons. Their main money making scheme involves provoking minor car accidents and feigning injury to claim compensation from befuddled drivers. The eldest boy, 10-year-old Toshio, is trained up by his parents to take part in the scams.</div><div><br></div><div>Boy was recently released on Blu-Ray by Radiance as part of a box set of Oshima films titled <i>Radical ...