This film director is awesome

Shohei Imamura

Shohei Imamura is a master of the Japanese film industry. He has relentlessly pursued human nature with an eye to the underbelly of Japan in his masterpieces “The Insect Woman” and “Intentions of Murder,” and has won the Grand Prix at the Cannes International Film Festival twice with “The Ballad of Narayama” (1983) and “The Eel” (1997), and is highly acclaimed internationally. Shohei Imamura was born in 1924 in Otsuka, Tokyo, to a family of medical practitioners. 18 years old when the war ended, Imamura worked on the black market to make ends meet, but at the same time entered Waseda University, where he became involved in the drama club. His experience of life in the black market, where human desires are exposed and swirling, is the starting point of Shohei Imamura’s work. Moved by Akira Kurosawa’s “Drunken Angel,” which was set in the black market, he jumped into the film industry. For the past 50 years, he has devoted himself solely to film directing. He has continued to pursue the question, “What is man, what is life, and what is death”?

“The Insect Woman”

Synopsis: Tome was born two months after her mother, En Matsuki, took Tadatsugu as her son-in-law. Tome grew up in her mother’s disorderly life. In 1941, at the age of 23, she became a female factory worker at Takaha Paper Company, but on the day the…