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Shohei Imamura (Japan)

Imamura Shohei, Japanese film director and screenwriter (Tokyo, September 15, 1926 - Tokyo, May 30, 2006). He studied history at Waseda University, as an assistant director he workd since 1951, made his debut in 1958, and in 1965 founded an independent company. A member of Japan's "New Wave", he is occupied with mostly social themes; most acclaimed for the films The Insect Woman (Nippon konchuki, 1963), about the peasant girl lead for prostitution, Pigs and Battleships (Buta to gunkan, 1961), about contemporary corruption-ridden Japan, and for The Ballad of Narayama (Narayama bushi-ko, 1983); awarded the Golden Palm at Cannes, a movie written according to the legend of an old man who was consciously left by his family to die.

Filmography

  • 11'09"01 September 11 - Episode # 11: " Japan"
    2002
  • Warm Water Under a Red Bridge
    2001
  • Dr. Akagi
    1998
  • The Eel
    1997
  • Black Rain
    1989
  • Zegen
    1983
  • The Ballad of Narayama
    1983
  • Eijanaika / Why Not?
    1981
  • Vengeance is Mine
    1979
  • Karayuki-san, the Making of a Prostitute
    1975
  • History of Postwar Japan as Told by a Bar Hostess
    1970
  • Profound Desires of the Gods or Kuragejima - Legends from a Southern Island
    1968
  • A Man Vanishes
    1967
  • The Pornographers
    1966
  • Unholy Desire or Intentions of Murder
    1964
  • The Insect Woman
    1963
  • Pigs and Battleships
    1961
  • My Second Brother
    1959
  • Nishi Ginza Station
    1958
  • Endless Desire
    1958
  • Stolen Desire
    1958

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