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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, Vudu, 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 Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, YouTube
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 MUBI Amazon Channel, 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 MUBI, MUBI Amazon Channel, ARROW, 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 ARROW, 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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