Dr. Akagi, a rural physician in Japan during WWII, wages a one-man crusade against hepetitis Read More »
Tag Archives: Shôhei Imamura
Kuroi Ame / Black Rain (1989) Shôhei Imamura
Mr and Mrs Shizuma, and their niece Yasuko, make their way through the ruins of Hiroshima Read More »
Unagi / The Eel (1997) Shôhei Imamura
White-collar worker Yamashita finds out that his wife has a lover visiting her when he’s away, suddenly returns home and kills her. Read More »
My Second Brother / Nianchan (1960) Shôhei Imamura, Hiroyuki Nagato, Kayo Matsuo, Takeshi Okimura
Being a faithful ‘company man’, Yoshikawa moves steadily ahead within the Toho corporation. Read More »
Nishi Ginza Station / Nishi Ginza ekimae (1958) Shôhei Imamura, Frank Nagai, Shin’ichi Yanagisawa, Hisano Yamaoka
This Japanese comedy is bookended by Frank Nagai’s title song, and Nagai keeps cropping up throughout the film Read More »
Profound Desires of the Gods / Kamigami no fukaki yokubô (1968) Shohei Imamura, Rentarô Mikuni, Chôichirô Kawarasaki, Hideko Okiyama
The Tokyo engineer Kariya arrives on a primitive tropical island to drill Read More »
Muhomatsu Returns Home / Muhômatsu kokyô ni kaeru (1973) Shohei Imamura, Fujiko Fujita, Fujio Fujita, Matsuyoshi Fujita
Three years after his first two documentaries on these soldiers who did not return Read More »
Why Not? / Eijanaika (1981) Shôhei Imamura, Shigeru Izumiya, Kaori Momoi, Masao Kusakari
Near the turbulent end of the Edo era, a man returning to Japan after exile in America Read More »
Stolen Desire / Nusumareta yokujô (1958) Shôhei Imamura, Osamu Takizawa, Shin’ichi Yanagisawa, Hiroyuki Nagato
A rambunctious and ribald tale of a troupe of travelling actors who alternate highlights of kabuki theatre with strip shows. Read More »
The Ballad of Narayama AKA Narayama bushikô (1983) Shôhei Imamura, Ken Ogata, Sumiko Sakamoto, Tonpei Hidari
In a poor 19th century rural Japanese village, everyone who reaches the age of 70 has to climb a nearby mountain to die. Read More »