The Japanese director of the acclaimed World War II prison camp drama “Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence”, Nagisa Oshima, died Tuesday, his son said. He was 80. Oshima, who had a critical hit with the controversial erotic work “In the Realm of the Senses” which famously contained unsimulated sex scenes, had…
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