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After over a decade of directing features about the student protests in his home country, about the post-war generation and how these tumultuous times have shaped the nation, Nagisa Oshima set out to direct a new chapter in a movie about the status of the artist within this historical and social context. In “The Man Who Left His Will on Film”, he follows a similar approach as in “Diary of a Shinjuku Thief” when it comes to portraying the struggles of the time, as well as the way a filmmaker might react to the onslaught of images presented in front of him or her, whether the act of filming itself can be regarded a political statement or if neutrality is really an option for a person who should also keep a certain distance towards its subject.

While filming on a street in Tokyo, student Motoki (Kazuo Goto) fights with his...