Currently a features writer at Collider, Elisa Guimarães is an arts and entertainment journalist and a critic with over a decade of experience. Passionate about movies and TV shows as a whole, she ...

“In the first place, to make films is a criminal act in this world.” – Oshima Nagisa “They were a nation of anxious people, and they could do nothing individually, so they went mad en masse.” – Tom ...

The film also had direct consequences: Ōshima was indicted for obscenity in Japan in 1977, a charge of which he was finally and fully acquitted for the second time five years later; the judge accepted ...