Shōhei Imamura (今村 昌平, Imamura Shōhei, 15 September 1926 – 30 May 2006) was a Japanese film director. His main interest as a filmmaker lay in the depiction...

include directors Nagisa Ōshima, Yoshishige Yoshida, Masahiro Shinoda and Shōhei Imamura. The term New Wave was coined after the French Nouvelle vague, a movement...

Buta to gunkan) is a 1961 Japanese satirical comedy film by director Shōhei Imamura. The film depicts black market trades between the U.S. military and...

of a person) is a 1967 Japanese pseudo documentary film by director Shōhei Imamura about a film team's search for a man reported missing. Tadashi Oshima...

Narayama (楢山節考, Narayama Bushikō) is a 1983 Japanese film by director Shōhei Imamura. It stars Sumiko Sakamoto as Orin, Ken Ogata, and Shoichi Ozawa. It...

was discovered by Shōhei Imamura as a newcomer and cast in the film Pigs and Battleships. She went on to appear in films like Imamura's The Insect Woman...

Natsuko Imamura (今村 夏子, born 1980), Japanese writer Norio Imamura (born 1954), Japanese actor Shikō Imamura (1880-1916), Japanese artist Shohei Imamura (1926-2006)...

Black Rain (黒い雨, Kuroi ame) is a 1989 Japanese drama film by director Shōhei Imamura, based on the novel of the same name by Masuji Ibuse. The story centers...

"Entomological Chronicles of Japan") is a 1963 Japanese drama film directed by Shōhei Imamura. It was entered into the 14th Berlin International Film Festival, where...

was one of the candidates for the role of main character Genji in Shohei Imamura's film Eijanaika but eventually he played a smaller role. As a singer...

Yılmaz Güney & Şerif Gören Turkey 1983 The Ballad of Narayama 楢山節考 Shōhei Imamura Japan 1984 Paris, Texas § Wim Wenders West Germany, France 1985 When...

for Director of the Year Yoji Yamada (1978) Yoshitarō Nomura (1979) Shohei Imamura (1980) Seijun Suzuki (1981) Kōhei Oguri (1982) Kinji Fukasaku (1983)...

important figures of the Japanese New Wave (Nūberu bāgu), alongside Shōhei Imamura. His film style was bold, innovative and provocative. Common themes...

Why Not? (ええじゃないか, Ee ja nai ka) is a 1981 Japanese film by director Shohei Imamura. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1981 Cannes...

for Director of the Year Yoji Yamada (1978) Yoshitarō Nomura (1979) Shohei Imamura (1980) Seijun Suzuki (1981) Kōhei Oguri (1982) Kinji Fukasaku (1983)...

seikatsu) is a 1970 Japanese documentary film by director Shōhei Imamura. Director Shōhei Imamura interviews Emiko Akaza, the bar hostess of the film's title...

jointly awarded to Ta'm e guilass by Abbas Kiarostami and Unagi by Shohei Imamura. Jeanne Moreau was the mistress of ceremonies. The festival opened with...

for Director of the Year Yoji Yamada (1978) Yoshitarō Nomura (1979) Shohei Imamura (1980) Seijun Suzuki (1981) Kōhei Oguri (1982) Kinji Fukasaku (1983)...

through pornographers) is a 1966 satiric Japanese film directed by Shōhei Imamura. It is based on the novel Erogotoshitachi by Akiyuki Nosaka. Subuyan...

"Red Murderous Intent") is a 1964 Japanese drama film by director Shōhei Imamura. Sadako, a corpulent young woman, lives with her common-law husband...

for Director of the Year Yoji Yamada (1978) Yoshitarō Nomura (1979) Shohei Imamura (1980) Seijun Suzuki (1981) Kōhei Oguri (1982) Kinji Fukasaku (1983)...

actress whose most internationally known work has been for director Shohei Imamura, from 1979 up to the director's final film in 2010. Baisho has also...

Hepburn: Fukushū Suru wa Ware ni Ari) is a 1979 Japanese film directed by Shōhei Imamura, based on the book of the same name by Ryūzō Saki. It depicts the true...

also adapted into a live-action film, The Pornographers, directed by Shōhei Imamura. In July 1972, as a magazine editor, he published Kafū Nagai's Taishō...

Hateshinaki yokubō) is a 1958 Japanese black comedy and crime film by Shōhei Imamura. In the film, war veterans of the Pacific War conspire to uncover a...

for The Catch and Okinawan Boys (1983). Other notable roles were in Shohei Imamura's Vengeance Is Mine (1979), Paul Schrader's Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters...

Zhangke Karoly Makk Michelangelo Antonioni Pedro Almodóvar René Clément Shōhei Imamura Vittorio De Sica 5 films: Abbas Kiarostami Aki Kaurismäki Bo Widerberg...

in 1978. New wave filmmakers Susumu Hani and Shōhei Imamura retreated to documentary work, though Imamura made a dramatic return to feature filmmaking...

(Japanese: 女衒 ZEGEN) is a 1987 Japanese black comedy film by director Shohei Imamura. It was entered into the 1987 Cannes Film Festival. The film was selected...

for Director of the Year Yoji Yamada (1978) Yoshitarō Nomura (1979) Shohei Imamura (1980) Seijun Suzuki (1981) Kōhei Oguri (1982) Kinji Fukasaku (1983)...