Shohei Imamura
Shōhei Imamura was a Japanese film director. His main interest as a filmmaker lay in the depiction of the lower strata of Japanese society. A key figure in the Japanese New Wave, who continued working into the 21st century, Imamura is the only director from Japan to win two Palme d'Or awards, doing so with The Ballad of Narayama (1983) and The Eel (1997).
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Defining films
Films by decade
Vengeance Is Mine
In Search of Unreturned Soldiers
Karayuki-San, The Making of a Prostitute
Two Men Named Yoshinobu
Muhomatsu Returns Home
The Pirates of Bubuan
In Search of Unreturned Soldiers
A History of Postwar Japan as Told by a Bar Hostess
