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Directed by Shohei Imamura • 1979 • Japan. Starring Ken Ogata, Mayumi Ogawa, Mitsuko Baisho. A thief, a murderer, and a charming lady-killer, Iwao Enokizu (Ken Ogata) is on the run from the police. Director Shohei Imamura turns this fact-based story—about the seventy-eight-day killing spree of a remorseless man from a devoutly Catholic ...
Pauline Chalamet’s Closet Picks. The Paris-based Argentine filmmaker selects a few films that align with his interest in cinematic provocation, including unsettling works by Shohei Imamura and Pier Paolo Pasolini.
2 de sept. de 2014 · Extras 7/10. Criterion’s DVD was pretty barebones, only containing a 10-minute excerpt from an interview with Shohei Imamura and a couple of trailers (all included here) but Criterion manages to add one significant feature that was not on their original DVD: a 2005 audio commentary featuring film critic Tony Rayns that was recorded originally for the UK Masters of Cinema DVD edition for the ...
4 de sept. de 2014 · VENGEANCE IS MINE, SHOHEI IMAMURA, 1979 Shohei Imamura's Vengeance Is Mine was his first foray into narrative films after more than a decade of working with documentaries. It shows, as this is based on true events. With a couple of exceptions, Imamura does not rely on artistic storytelling methods. Aside from bouncing back and forth….
Violence at Noon concerns the odd circumstances surrounding a horrific murder and rape spree. In a twist, the film is as much about the two women who protect the violent man—his wife and a former victim—as it is about him. Containing more than two thousand cuts and a wealth of inventive widescreen compositions, this coolly fragmented character study is a mesmerizing investigation of ...
Picture 6/10. Arrow Academy presents a new Blu-ray edition for Shohei Imamura’s take on The Ballad of Narayama, delivered here in its original aspect ratio of 1.85:1. The dual-layer disc is (currently only) available in their box set Survivor Ballads: Three Films by Shohei Imamura. The master was supplied to Arrow by Toei, who have apparently ...
4 de ago. de 2003 · The kind of aesthete who could fashion a religion out of the old National Enquirer, Shohei Imamura has a passion for everything that’s kinky, lowlife, or irrational in Japanese culture. He populates his films with murderers, hillbillies, shamans, and prostitutes; incest and voyeurism are his stock-in-trade. Imamura, who began his career as an assistant director to Yasujiro Ozu, is a return ...
