Japanese Movie Database lists 482 films released in Japan during 1968. 479 feature films were released this year. 196 of the films released by the major five studios were in color; 211 were gendai-geki, set in the modern era, and 28 were jidai-geki, set in historical times. Film critic Tadao Satō names as significant releases of the year, Kōsaku Yamashita's Big Time Gambling Boss, Shōhei Imamura's The Profound Desire of the Gods, Kihara Okamoto's Human Bullet, and Shinsuke Ogawa's documentary Summer in Sanrizuka: The Front Line for the Liberation of Japan. Nagisa Ōshima's Death by Hanging, was the first film backed by the Japanese Art Theater (ATG), which became a long-running successful producer of experimental films.