Cast: Shôhei Imamura

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Shôhei Imamura. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


I Lived, But...

1983 · Documentary · 123 min. · Japan

Direction Kazuo Inoue

Cast Ineko Arima · Chikage Awashima · Shôhei Imamura · Tatsuya Jô

Synopsis A documentary by Kazuo Inoue about the life and career of Yasujiro Ozu, which involved his assistant Shohei Imamura (director of The Pornographers and The Eel), critics Donald Richie and Tadao Sato, actors and stars of his films Chishu Ryu...

7.2

30 votes

7.2

30 votes

A Man Vanishes

1967 · Documentary · 130 min. · Japan

Direction Shôhei Imamura

Cast Yoshie Hayakawa · Shôhei Imamura · Shigeru Tsuyuguchi

Synopsis Ostensibly Imamura's first work in documentary features, A Man Vanishes is much more, heralding the future work of Kazuo Hara and Werner Herzog, amongst others, in the genre-defying mix of style and loose adherence to filmic "reality." Imamura follows one...

6.8

54 votes

6.8

54 votes

2009: Lost Memories

2002 · Movie · 136 min. · South Korea

Direction Lee Si-myung

Cast Jang Dong-gun · Tôru Nakamura · Ahn Gil-kang · Jin-ho Seo

Synopsis One of South Korea's top-grossing films, director Si-myung Lee's 2009: LOST MEMORIES blends sci-fi, action, politics, and history into a time-bending thriller which explores issues of national and cultural identity. Set in the year 2009, the film operates in an...

5.6

87 votes

5.6

87 votes

The Making of a Prostitute

1975 · Documentary · 75 min. · Japan

Direction Shôhei Imamura

Cast Kurahachi Fukuda · Tora Hirano · Shôhei Imamura · Shôhei Nagao

Synopsis Documentary - (The interviewer is an Asian male director, Shohei Imamura.) Interview with Kikuyo Zendo, a 73 year-old, Japanese, trafficked-in-1921, prostitute (karayuki-san) who spent the longer part of her life outside Japan in Malaysia. She discusses her sex work career...

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Direction Shôhei Imamura

Cast Shôhei Imamura

Synopsis The searching of un-return japanese soldier in Malaysia by Imamura Shohei with the help from local people.

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Muhomatsu Returns Home

1973 · Documentary · 48 min. · Japan

Direction Shôhei Imamura

Cast Fujiko Fujita · Yoshio Ukiie · Matsuyoshi Fujita · Michiko Hamaguchi

Synopsis Television documentary featuring interviews with Japanese soldiers after the Second World War.

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In Search of the Unreturned Soldiers in Thailand

1971 · Documentary · 45 min. · Japan

Direction Shôhei Imamura

Cast Shôhei Imamura

Synopsis In Thailand, Imamura brings together three Japanese soldiers who did not return home after World War II to discuss their experiences during and after the war.

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