Shôhei Imamura
Shohei Imamura's films dig beneath the surface of Japanese society to reveal a wellspring of sensual, often irrational, energy that lies beneath. Along with his colleagues Nagisa Oshima and Masahiro Shinoda, Imamura began his serious directorial career as a member of the New Wave movement in Japan. Reacting against the studio system, and particularly against the style of Yasujiro Ozu, the director he first assisted, Imamura moved away from the subtlety and understated nature of the classical masters to a celebration of the primitive and spontaneous aspects of Japanese life. To explore this level of Japanese consciousness, Imamura focuses on the lower classes, with characters who range from bovine housewives to shamans, and from producers of blue movies to troupes of third-rate traveling actors. He has proven himself unafraid to explore themes usually considered taboo, particularly those of incest and superstition.
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Shôhei Imamura
Filmography
Movies
Credit | |||||
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77% |
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11-09-01: September 11 | Director | $120.0K | 2002 |
81% |
|
Warm Water Under a Red Bridge |
Director, Writer |
$62.0K | 2001 |
94% |
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Dr. Akagi |
Director, Writer |
$71.8K | 1998 |
81% |
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The Eel |
Director, Writer |
$413.8K | 1997 |
86% |
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Black Rain | Director | - | 1988 |
No Score Yet |
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Zegen |
Director, Writer |
- | 1987 |
94% |
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The Ballad of Narayama |
Director, Screenwriter |
- | 1983 |
No Score Yet |
|
Eijanaika |
Director, Writer, Producer |
- | 1981 |
100% |
|
Vengeance Is Mine | Director | - | 1979 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Youth Killer | Producer | - | 1976 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Karayuki-san, The Making Of A Prostitute | Director | - | 1975 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Outlaw-Matsu Comes Home | Director | - | 1973 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Pirates of Bubuan |
Director, Screenwriter |
- | 1972 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | History of Postwar Japan as Told by a Bar Hostess |
Director, Writer |
- | 1970 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Neon Jungle | Screenwriter | - | 1968 |
No Score Yet |
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The Profound Desire of the Gods |
Director, Writer |
- | 1968 |
100% |
|
A Man Vanishes |
Unknown (Character), Director, Producer |
- | 1967 |
100% |
|
The Pornographers |
Director, Screenwriter |
- | 1966 |
86% |
|
Insect Woman | Director | - | 1964 |
No Score Yet |
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Intentions of Murder |
Director, Screenwriter |
- | 1964 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Modern Samurai Village | Screenwriter | - | 1963 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Pigs and Battleships | Director | - | 1961 |
No Score Yet |
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Pigs and Battleships (Buta to gunkan) (Hogs and Warships) | Director | - | 1961 |
No Score Yet |
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Nianchan | Director | - | 1960 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | My Second Brother |
Director, Writer |
- | 1959 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Nishi Ginza Station |
Director, Writer |
- | 1958 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Endless Desire |
Director, Screenwriter |
- | 1958 |
No Score Yet |
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Stolen Desire | Director | - | 1958 |
No Score Yet |
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Sun in the Last Days of the Shogunate | Writer | - | 1957 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Balloon | Screenwriter | - | 1956 |