Shohei Imamura

Shohei Imamura (今村 昌平 Imamura Shōhei, born 15 September 1926 in Tokyo, Japan) is a Japanese film director.

Contents

1 Filmography 2 See also 3 Further reading 4 External links

Filmography

• Stolen Desire (1958)
• Nishi Ginza Station (1958)
• Endless Desire (1958)
• My Second Brother (1959)
• Pigs and Battleships (1961)
• The Insect Woman (1963)
• Unholy Desire (1964)
• The Pornographers (1966)
• A Man Vanishes (1967)
• Deep Desire of Gods aka. Legends from a Southern Island (1968)
• History of Postwar Japan as Told by a Bar Hostess (1970)
• Karayuki-san, the Making of a Prostitute (1975)
• Vengeance Is Mine (1979)
• Why Not? (1981)
• The Ballad of Narayama (1982, Palme d'Or)
• Zegen (1987)
• Black Rain (1989)
• The Eel (1998)
• Dr. Akagi (1998)
• Warm Water Under a Red Bridge (2001)
• 9'11''01 September 11 (2002)

See also

• Cinema of Japan
• Takeshi Kitano
• Sogo Ishii
• Kenji Mizoguchi
• Nagisa Oshima

Further reading

• Notes for a study on Shohei Imamura by Donald Richie
• Shohei Imamura (Cinematheque Ontario Monographs, No. 1) by James Quandt , ed.

External links

• Biography and filmography at Senses of Cinema
• Profile at Japan Zone
• Shohei Imamura's IMDb Listing
• Shohei Imamura's JMDb Listing (in Japanese)