List of the best Shôhei Imamura movies: The Ballad of Narayama(1983), Vengeance Is Mine(1979), The Eel(1997), Dr. Akagi(1998), Eijanaika(1981), Black Rain(1988) ... ...
7.9/10
Drama
Japan
1983
130 Minutes
Director
Sumiko Sakamoto Ken Ogata Aki Takejô
grandmother son elderly woman wife shocking chilling moving valley mountain village japan aging death marriage rape ritual sacrifice wretched excess quest 19th century
In a poor 19th century rural Japanese village, everyone who reaches the age of 70 has to climb a nearby mountain to die. An old woman is getting close to the cut-off age, and we follow her last days with her family.
7.8/10
Crime, Drama
Japan
1979
128 Minutes
Director
Ken Ogata Rentarô Mikuni Chocho Miyako Mitsuko Baishô Nijiko Kiyokawa Mayumi Ogawa
serial killer wife father madam truck driver ex-convict bleak brutal tense japan city suburbia prison brothel murder manhunt relationships incest investigation mental illness
Chronological exploits of Iwao Enokizu, a murderous thief on the run.
7.4/10
Drama
Japan
1997
116 Minutes
Director
Koji Yakusho Misa Shimizu Fujio Tsuneta Mitsuko Baishô Akira Emoto Shô Aikawa Ken Kobayashi Sabu Kawara Etsuko Ichihara Tomorowo Taguchi
barber assistant priest friend wife emotional moving small town river family home barbershop redemption infidelity guilt murder love transformation 1990s
A businessman kills his adulterous wife and is sent to prison. After the release, he opens a barbershop and meets new people, talking almost to no one except an eel he befriended while in prison.
7.3/10
Drama
Japan|France
1998
129 Minutes
Director
Akira Emoto Kumiko Aso Juro Kara Masanori Sera Jacques Gamblin Keiko Matsuzaka Misa Shimizu Yukiya Kitamura Masato Yamada Tomorowo Taguchi Masatô Ibu
At the end of WWII, Japanese doctor Akagi searches for the cure for hepatitis in the prisoner-of-war camp.
6.9/10
Drama
Japan
1981
151 Minutes
Director
Kaori Momoi Shigeru Izumiya Ken Ogata Shigeru Tsuyuguchi Masao Kusakari Ako Mitsuko Baishô
Near the turbulent end of the Edo era, a man returning to Japan after exile in America searches for his wife and becomes swept up in the current of revolution in this incisive period drama from the great Shohei Imamura.
Drama
1988
122 Minutes
Director
Yoshiko Tanaka Kazuo Kitamura Etsuko Ichihara Shôichi Ozawa Norihei Miki Keisuke Ishida
young woman uncle aunt poor person survivor bleak touching brutal emotional hiroshima, japan village family home city hiroshima bombing radiation illness social standing marriage family underdog
Five years after World War II, Hiroshima's survivors still struggle with the memories of their horrible ordeal.
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