Vanishing points: the films of Shohei Imamura
- Document source:
- Harvard Film Archive
- Publication date:
- 2007 Dec 01
- Document language:
- English
- Document type:
- program note
- Number of pages:
- 2
- Source pagination:
- 14-15
- Document name subject:
- Shohei Imamura
- Document contains:
- bibliography and production co
- Related films:
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- Hateshinaki yokubo (Endless desire) — Imamura, Shohei — Japan — 1958
- Nishi Ginza Ekimae (Nishi Ginza Station) — Imamura, Shohei — Japan — 1958
- Nusumareta yokujo (Stolen desire) — Imamura, Shohei — Japan — 1958
- Nianchan (My second brother) — Imamura, Shohei — Japan — 1959
- Buta to gunkan (Pigs and battleships) — Imamura, Shohei — Japan — 1961
- Nippon konchuki (The insect woman) — Imamura, Shohei — Japan — 1963
- Akai satsui (Intentions of murder) — Imamura, Shohei — Japan — 1964
- Jinruigaku nyumon (The pornographers) — Imamura, Shohei — Japan — 1966
- Ningen johatsu (A man vanishes) — Imamura, Shohei — Japan — 1967
- Kamigami no fukaki yokubo (The profound desire of the gods) — Imamura, Shohei — Japan — 1968
- Nippon sengoshi - Madamu Onboro no seikatsu (History of postwar Japan as told by a bar hostess) — Imamura, Shohei — Japan — 1970
- 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
- Eijanaika (So what) — Imamura, Shohei — Japan — 1981
- Narayama bushi-ko (The ballad of Narayama) — Imamura, Shohei — Japan — 1982
- Zegen (The pimp) — Imamura, Shohei — Japan — 1987
- Kuroi ame (Black rain) — Imamura, Shohei — Japan — 1989
- Unagi (The eel) — Imamura, Shohei — Japan — 1997
- Film country(ies):
- Japan
- Film language(s):
- English and Japanese
- Film production company:
- Art Theatre Guild of Japan Co. Ltd., Eisei Gekijo Co., Ltd., Groove Corporation, Hayashibara Group, Imamura Productions, KSS, Nihon Eiga Shinsha, Nikkatsu Kabushiki Kaisha, Satellite Cinema, Shibata Organisation Incorporated, Shochiku Kabushiki Kaisha, Toei Company Ltd., Toho Kabushiki Kaisha, and Tohokushinsha Film Corporation
- Film genre(s):
- Adaptation, Biographical, Biographical (Nonfiction), Comedy, Dark comedy, Documentary, Drama, Feature, Historical, Reality-based, Remakes, Romance, Social problem, and Thriller
- Film subject(s):
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- Adultery -- Japan -- Drama
- Americans -- Japan -- Attitudes -- Drama
- Anthropology -- Japan -- Drama
- Anthropology -- Ryuku Islands -- Drama
- Atomic bomb -- Japan -- Hiroshima-shi -- Physiological effect -- Drama
- Atomic bomb victims -- Japan -- Hiroshima-shi -- Drama
- Avarice -- Drama
- Bars (Drinking establishments) -- Japan
- Bartenders -- Japan
- Black market -- Japan -- Drama
- Businessmen -- Japan -- Drama
- Children -- Japan -- Drama
- Coal mines and mining -- Japan -- Drama
- Culture conflict -- Japan -- Drama
- Culture conflict -- Ryuku Islands -- Drama
- Documentary films -- Japan
- Eels -- Drama
- Erotic films -- Production and direction -- Japan -- Drama
- Family life -- Japan -- Drama
- Fukasawa, Shichiro, 1914- -- Film and video adaptations
- Hiroshima-shi (Japan) -- History -- Bombardment, 1945 -- Drama
- Human-animal relationships -- Japan -- Drama
- Husband and wife -- Japan -- Drama
- Ibuse, Masuji, 1898- Kuroi ame -- Film and video adaptations
- Imperialism -- Japan -- Drama
- Incest -- Japan -- Drama
- Interpersonal relations -- Japan -- Drama
- Japan -- Civilization -- 1868-1912 -- Drama
- Japan -- Civilization -- Drama
- Japan -- Economic conditions -- 1945-
- Japan -- History -- 1945-
- Japan -- History -- 1945- -- Drama
- Japan -- History -- 19th century -- Drama
- Japan -- History -- Allied occupation, 1945-1952 -- Drama
- Japan -- History -- Drama
- Japan -- History -- Meiji period, 1868-1912 -- Drama
- Japan -- History -- Restoration, 1853-1870 -- Drama
- Japan -- History -- Tokugawa Period, 1600-1868 -- Drama
- Japan -- Politics and government -- 19th century -- Drama
- Japan -- Social conditions -- 1945-
- Japan -- Social conditions -- 19th century -- Drama
- Man-woman relationships -- Japan -- Drama
- Missing persons -- Japan
- Missing persons -- Japan -- Drama
- Mothers and sons -- Japan -- Drama
- Motion picture producers and directors -- Japan
- Motion picture producers and directors -- Japan -- Drama
- Motion pictures -- Production and direction -- Japan -- Drama
- Muraoka, Iheiji, 1867-1943? -- Drama
- Murderers -- Japan -- Drama
- Navy-yards and naval stations, American -- Japan -- Yokosuka-Shi -- Drama
- Nosaka, Akiyuki, 1930- . Erogotoshi tachi -- Film and video adaptations
- Nuclear warfare -- Social aspects -- Drama
- Old age -- Japan -- Drama
- Orphans -- Japan -- Drama
- Poor -- Japan -- Drama
- Pornographers -- Japan -- Drama
- Pornography -- Japan -- Drama
- Prostitutes -- Asia, Southeastern -- Biography
- Prostitutes, Japanese -- Asia, Southeastern
- Prostitution -- Asia, Southeastern -- Drama
- Psychopaths -- Japan -- Drama
- Radiation injuries -- Japan -- Hiroshima-shi -- Drama
- Rape victims -- Japan -- Drama
- Reminiscing -- Japan -- Drama
- Repatriation -- Japan
- Return migration -- Japan -- Drama
- Ryuku Islands -- Civilization -- Drama
- Saki, Ryuzo -- Film and video adaptations
- Serial murderers -- Japan -- Drama
- Single women -- Japan -- Drama
- Social conflict -- Japan -- Drama
- Technology and civilization -- Japan -- Drama
- Technology and civilization -- Ryuku Islands -- Drama
- Treasure-trove -- Japan -- Drama
- Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Japan -- Drama
- Tropics -- Drama
- Uxoricide -- Japan -- Drama
- Villages -- Japan -- Drama
- Women -- Asia, Southeastern -- Economic conditions
- Women -- Japan -- Attitudes -- Drama
- Women -- Japan -- History -- 1939- -- Drama
- Women -- Japan -- History -- 1945-
- Women -- Japan -- Sexual behavior -- Drama
- Yakuza -- Japan -- Drama
- Yasumoto, Sueko -- Film and video adaptations
- Yoshimura, Akira, 1927- . Yami ni hirameku -- Film and video adaptations
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