Shôhei Imamura Filmography

In the quaint coastal village of Onomichi, Japan, the life of the elderly couple Shukishi...

In the heartrending documentary, "The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On," viewers are thrown into an...

In the gritty underbelly of a city pulsating with vice, we discover Mr. Ogata, an...

In the sweltering heart of a drought-stricken tropical island, Tokyo engineer Kariya embarks on a...

Set amid the harsh realities of poverty-stricken rural Japan in the late 1910s, The Insect...

In the heart of Tokyo, Yosuke, a subdued and jobless man, stumbles upon an otherworldly...

In the shadowy aftermath of the Pacific War, ten years later on August 15, a...

In the heart of Japan's political landscape, Jozaburo Araki, a renowned pharmaceutical mogul turned Minister...

In postwar Tokyo, this household is loving and serene: older parents, their 28-year-old daughter Noriko,...

Takeo, a capricious wife from Tokyo high-society, is bored by her dull husband, a quiet...

Mr and Mrs Shizuma, and their niece Yasuko, make their way through the ruins of...

Plastics salesman Oshima disappeared without a word to anyone, and has been missing for two...

A housewife living under her tyrannical husband has her life stressfully turned upside down after...

Dr. Akagi, a rural physician in Japan during WWII, wages a one-man crusade against hepetitis,...

Documentary - (The interviewer is an Asian male director, Shohei Imamura.) Interview with Kikuyo Zendo,...

Two women start relationships with men who are considered wrong to them.

Near the turbulent end of the Edo era, a man returning to Japan after exile...

Haruki Murakami is a successful family man and the head of a camera company. Unbeknownst...

Sonejiro sacrifices all comfort to devote himself to research. Young housewife Yachiyo is disappointed with...

When she was a little girl, Wakako Kyoguku's portrait was painted by a talented young...