Magical History Tour - Japanese New Wave and Testimonies of Change in China

In the 1960s and 70s, Japan was in a phase of radical social, political and economic change. Japanese New Wave violently broke with the established cinema of grandmasters such as Ozu, Kurosawa und Mizoguchi and formed a radical counter-movement testing a new aesthetic and ideology.

"In the 1960s and 70s, we attempted to destroy Japanese cinema. I started making films that openly revolted against society, films that stood for protest against the sickness of this society." (Nagisa Oshima)