Imamura Shohei - Definition

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

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)
• A Man Vanishes (1967)
• Deep Desire of Gods (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 Pornographers (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

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 (http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/directors/03/imamura.html)
• Profile at Japan Zone (http://www.japan-zone.com/modern/imamura_shohei.shtml)
• Shohei Imamura's IMDb Listing (http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0408076/)
• Shohei Imamura's JMDb Listing (in Japanese) (http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/person/p0122340.htm)