A groom's past as a student radical comes back to haunt him at his wedding to a current activist. Night and Fog in Japan Synopsis. Widely regarded as the most personal of director Nagisa Oshima’s three 1960 films, Night and Fog in Japan centers around a gathering of former student activists, all of which protested the signing of the U.S.-Japan Security Treaty. Nagisa Oshima’s most personal film is a reflection by the director on his own disillusionment with the revolutionary student movement of the 1950s and the failure of political radicalism. NIGHT AND FOG IN JAPAN. Night and Fog in Japan (Nagisa Oshima / Japan, 1960): (Nihon no Yoru to Kiri) The title is Resnais', Nagisa Oshima brings its sense of the inescapability of the past to a generation's aborted revolution. Taking its title (as a reference or homage) from Alain Resnais’ pivotal 1956 documentary Nuit et Brouillard, the film has a group of former student revolutionaries […] ''NIGHT AND FOG IN JAPAN,'' which opens today at the Film Forum, is the third of three films that Nagisa Oshima, the Japanese director, then 32, made in 1960 - … TIFF is a charitable cultural organization with a mission to transform the way people see the world, through film. Night and Fog in Japan Photos View All Photos (4) Movie Info. This brief essay was published in 2013 in the third print issue of the great online film journal La Furia Umana.. I for one had a hard time keeping up with all the dialogue, shifting allegiances and motives between the many characters explored, and the most I got out of 68. Not Yet Rated 1 hr 47 min Drama. Night and Fog in Japan (日本の夜と霧, Nihon no Yoru to Kiri) is a 1960 Japanese film directed by Nagisa Ōshima.It is an intensely political film both in subject matter (Zengakuren opposition in 1950 and 1960 to the Anpo treaty) and in thematic concerns such as political memory and the interpersonal dynamics of social movements. Japan, 1960, 1h 47min, 16mm, In Japanese with English Subtitles. Named for Alain Resnais’ incendiary documentary, Night and Fog in Japan (日本の夜と霧, Nihon no Yoru to Kiri) was pulled from cinema screens following the assassination of the leader of Japan’s Socialist Party by a right-wing nationalist just three days after the film’s release. Night and Fog in Japan "Arthouse" TMDb Score. Night and Fog in Japan's political agenda feels very didactic, and would probably be more applicable to a mind more in tune with the tumultuous social unrest of this era in Japan's history. Forbidden Colors: The Transgressions Of Nagisa Ôshima. Directed by Nagisa Ôshima.