Imamura Shohei
Selective Filmography:
1963: The Insect Woman
1967: A Man Vanishes (d)
1970: History of Postwar Japan as told by a Bar Hostess (d)
1970: In Search of the Unreturned Soldiers in Thailand (d)
1971: In Search of the Unreturned Soldiers in Malaysia (d)
1973: Outlaw Matsu returns home (d)
1975: Karayuki-san, the Making of a Prostitute (d)
1979: Vengeance is Mine
1983: The Ballad of Narayama
1989: Black Rain
1997: The Eel
1998: Doctor Akagi
2001: Warm Water under a Red Bridge
Selection:
Imamura Shōhei was born in 1926 in Tokyo. Associated with the Japanese New Wave, he was discovered in France in 1963 with The Insect Woman. Baroque and provocative, his work denotes radical social criticism. She often espouses the point of view of those on the margins or at the bottom of society and offers an aesthetic and philosophical quest in the exploration of atrocity, of historical horror. He died in 2006.
