Shōhei Imamura Movies

The female members of the family of the Minister of Health and Welfare, who has just proposed a program of birth control, become pregnant one after...

Reiko, who tolerates abuse in her marriage to a man 23 years her senior, is friends with Mayumi, a beautiful widow. Reiko meets her husband’s...

By going to the Philippines, Imamura comes to meet people living in an extreme poverty. He discovers very quickly that some communities are under the...

“In Search of Unreturned Soldiers was about former soldiers of the Japanese army who chose not to return to Japan after the war. I found...

Famed filmmaker tracks down former Japanese soldiers in Malaysia.

Karayuki-san, the Making of a Prostitute is a 1975 Japanese film by director Shohei Imamura. It is a documentary on one of the Japanese...

In Thailand, three Japanese soldiers, left in the jungle more than a quarter of a century after their country's defeat, come together to discuss what...

Documentary about Japanese film director Shohei Imamura.

Shohei Imamura’s short documentary.