Visceral vision: east meets west in the genius of Imamura

Document author(s):

Owen Gleiberman

Document source:

Boston Phoenix

Publication date:

1987 Feb 24

Document language:

English

Document type:

article

Number of pages:

2

Source pagination:

4, 13

Document name subject:

Shohei Imamura

Document contains:

production co

Related films:

• Buta to gunkan (Pigs and battleships) — Imamura, Shohei — Japan — 1961
• Karayuki-san (Karuyuki-san, the making of a prostitute) — Imamura, Shohei — Japan — 1975
• Fukushu suruwa ware ni ari (Vengeance is mine) — Imamura, Shohei — Japan — 1979
• Narayama bushi-ko (The ballad of Narayama) — Imamura, Shohei — Japan — 1982

Film country(ies):

Japan

Film language(s):

Japanese

Film production company:

Imamura Productions, Nikkatsu Kabushiki Kaisha, Shibata Organisation Incorporated, Shochiku Kabushiki Kaisha, and Toei Company Ltd.

Film genre(s):

Adaptation, Biographical (Nonfiction), Documentary, Drama, Feature, Reality-based, Remakes, Social problem, and Thriller

Film subject(s):

• Americans -- Japan -- Attitudes -- Drama
• Black market -- Japan -- Drama
• Fukasawa, Shichiro, 1914- -- Film and video adaptations
• Japan -- History -- 1945- -- Drama
• Japan -- History -- Allied occupation, 1945-1952 -- Drama
• Mothers and sons -- Japan -- Drama
• Murderers -- Japan -- Drama
• Navy-yards and naval stations, American -- Japan -- Yokosuka-Shi -- Drama
• Old age -- Japan -- Drama
• Prostitutes -- Asia, Southeastern -- Biography
• Prostitutes, Japanese -- Asia, Southeastern
• Psychopaths -- Japan -- Drama
• Repatriation -- Japan
• Saki, Ryuzo -- Film and video adaptations
• Serial murderers -- Japan -- Drama
• Villages -- Japan -- Drama
• Women -- Asia, Southeastern -- Economic conditions
• Yakuza -- Japan -- Drama

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