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A Man Vanishes
(人間蒸発)
This riveting documentary chronicles the missing-person’s case of Tadashi, a Japanese businessman who has vanished into thin air.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1967
- Director Shōhei Imamura
- Cast Yoshie Hayakawa, Shōhei Imamura, Shigeru Tsuyuguchi
- Genre Documentary, Drama
- Available on OVID, Apple TV
Vengeance Is Mine
(復讐するは我にあり)
A murderous thief and charming lady-killer goes on the run from the police.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1979
- Director Shôhei Imamura
- Cast Ken Ogata, Rentaro Mikuni, Chôchô Miyako, Mitsuko Baisho, Mayumi Ogawa, Nijiko Kiyokawa
- Genre Crime, Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel, Apple TV, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video
The Eel
(うなぎ)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1997
- Director Shōhei Imamura
- Cast Koji Yakusho, Misa Shimizu, Akira Emoto, Fujio Tokita, Sho Aikawa, Ken Kobayashi
- Genre Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Warm Water Under a Red Bridge
(赤い橋の下のぬるい水)
A frustrated unemployed man meets a woman with rare sexual abilities.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan, France • 2001
- Director Shōhei Imamura
- Cast Koji Yakusho, Misa Shimizu, Mitsuko Baisho, Mansaku Fuwa, Isao Natsuyagi, Yukiya Kitamura
- Genre Drama, Romance
- Available on Film Movement Plus, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube, Hoopla
The Ballad of Narayama
(楢山節考)
Only Time Could Change the Cruelty of Tradition… Only Their Love Could Survive It…
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1983
- Director Shōhei Imamura
- Cast Ken Ogata, Sumiko Sakamoto, Tonpei Hidari, Aki Takejo, Shoichi Ozawa, Fujio Tokita
- Genre Drama
- Available on ARROW, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, YouTube
Black Rain
(黒い雨)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1989
- Director Shôhei Imamura
- Cast Yoshiko Tanaka, Kazuo Kitamura, Etsuko Ichihara, Masato Yamada, Shoichi Ozawa, Norihei Miki
- Genre Drama, War
- Available on Amazon Video, Tubi TV
Intentions of Murder
(赤い殺意)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1964
- Director Shôhei Imamura
- Cast Masumi Harukawa, Kō Nishimura, Shigeru Tsuyuguchi, Yûko Kusunoki, Ranko Akagi, Tomio Aoki
- Genre Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel
Pigs and Battleships
(豚と軍艦)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1961
- Director Shôhei Imamura
- Cast Hiroyuki Nagato, Jitsuko Yoshimura, Masao Mishima, Tetsurō Tamba, Shirō Ōsaka, Takeshi Katō
- Genre Crime, Drama, Comedy
- Available on Criterion Channel
Profound Desires of the Gods
(神々の深き欲望)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1968
- Director Shôhei Imamura
- Cast Rentaro Mikuni, Chōichirō Kawarasaki, Kazuo Kitamura, Hideko Okiyama, Yoshi Katō, Yasuko Matsui
- Genre Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel
The Insect Woman
(にっぽん昆虫記)
She lives by instinct with no sense of right or wrong.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1963
- Director Shōhei Imamura
- Cast Emiko Aizawa, Masumi Harukawa, Sachiko Hidari, Emiko Higashi, Daizaburo Hirata, Seizaburō Kawazu
- Genre Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel
Endless Desire
(果しなき欲望)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1958
- Director Shōhei Imamura
- Cast Hiroyuki Nagato, Misako Watanabe, Kō Nishimura, Sanae Nakahara, Taiji Tonoyama, Takeshi Katō
- Genre Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel
The Pornographers
(「エロ事師たち」より 人類学入門)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1966
- Director Shôhei Imamura
- Cast Shoichi Ozawa, Sumiko Sakamoto, Keiko Sagawa, Masaomi Kondo, Haruo Tanaka, Ganjirô Nakamura II
- Genre Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Available on Criterion Channel
Dr. Akagi
(カンゾー先生)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan, France • 1998
- Director Shôhei Imamura
- Cast Akira Emoto, Kumiko Aso, Juro Kara, Masanori Sera, Jacques Gamblin, Keiko Matsuzaka
- Genre Comedy, Drama, History
- Available on Kanopy
History of Postwar Japan as Told by a Bar Hostess
(にっぽん戦後史 マダムおんぼろの生活)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1970
- Director Shôhei Imamura
- Cast Rikiya Yasuoka, Fukumi Kuroda
- Genre Documentary, History
- Available on No streaming locations found.
The Pirates of Buban
(Buban No Kaizoku)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1972
- Director Shôhei Imamura
- Cast Shôhei Imamura, Kō Nishimura, Shoichi Ozawa, Shigeru Tsuyuguchi, Kazuo Kitamura, Tôru Emori
- Genre Documentary, TV Movie
- Available on No streaming locations found.
My Second Brother
(にあんちゃん)
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1959
- Director Shôhei Imamura
- Cast Hiroyuki Nagato, Kayo Matsuo, Takeshi Okimura, Akiko Maeda, Kō Nishimura, Yoshio Omori
- Genre Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Zegen
(女衒)
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1987
- Director Shôhei Imamura
- Cast Ken Ogata, Mitsuko Baisho, Ko Chun-Hsiung, Norihei Miki, Hiroyuki Konishi, Sanshô Shinsui
- Genre Comedy, History
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, YouTube
Why Not?
(ええじゃないか)
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1981
- Director Shôhei Imamura
- Cast Shigeru Izumiya, Kaori Momoi, Masao Kusakari, Ken Ogata, Norihei Miki, Junzaburō Ban
- Genre Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel
Outlaw-Matsu Returns Home
(無法松故郷に帰る)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1973
- Director Shôhei Imamura
- Cast Shôhei Imamura
- Genre Documentary, TV Movie
- Available on OVID
Karayuki-San, the Making of a Prostitute
(からゆきさん)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1973
- Director Shōhei Imamura
- Cast Kikuyo Zendo, Shōhei Imamura
- Genre Documentary
- Available on OVID
Following the Unreturned Soldier: Thailand
(未帰還兵を追って タイ編)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1971
- Director Shôhei Imamura
- Cast
- Genre Documentary
- Available on OVID
Stolen Desire
(盗まれた欲情)
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1958
- Director Shôhei Imamura
- Cast Osamu Takizawa, Shinichi Yanagisawa, Hiroyuki Nagato, Kō Nishimura, Hayao Takamura, Shojiro Ogasawara
- Genre Comedy, Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel
Following the Unreturned Soldiers: Malaysia
(未帰還兵を追って マレー編)
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1970
- Director Shôhei Imamura
- Cast
- Genre Documentary, TV Movie
- Available on OVID
Nishi Ginza Station
(西銀座駅前)
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1958
- Director Shōhei Imamura
- Cast Frank Nagai, Shinichi Yanagisawa, Hisano Yamaoka, Masahiko Shimazu, Kō Nishimura, Kotoe Hatsui
- Genre Comedy, Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Oreno Shimokita
(遠くへ行きたい おれの下北)
- • 1972
- Director Shôhei Imamura
- Cast Shôhei Imamura
- Genre
- Available on No streaming locations found.
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