The generation after Kurosawa and Ozu, dissatisfied with consensus. Oshima on sex, death, and defeat. Imamura documenting the underclass with anthropological intensity. Suzuki dismantling yakuza genre from within.
The Japanese New Wave is a group of loosely-connected Japanese films and filmmakers between the late 1950s and part of the 1970s. The most prominent representatives include directors Nagisa Ōshima, Yoshishige Yoshida, Masahiro Shinoda and Shōhei Imamura.