ShÔhei Imamura

The Cultural Anthropologist

Reviews:

• A Man Vanishes: Playful faux-documentary about a woman looking for her missing fiancé
• The Ballad of Narayama: The cruel reality of survival in a remote rural village
• Pigs and Battleships: Wild portrait of Japanese society’s underbelly
• Profound Desires of the Gods: Outlandish epic centring on a strange family on a remote island

Article:

• Survival Instincts: Shôhei Imamura’s 1960s heroines

Reel Sounds:

• Black Rain: Music for the End of Time

Podcast:

• The Art Theatre Guild of Japan: Julian Ross talks about the organisation at the centre of experimental and independent Japanese cinema of the 1960s and 70s, including a discussion of A Man Vanishes.

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