Pigs, Pimps & Prostitutes Shôhei Imamura [videorecording]=

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Shôhei Imamura

Contributor(s):

Shôhei Imamura [Director]

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: Japanese Summary language: English Original language: Japanese Subtitle language: English Series: The Criterion Collection ; Vol. 471 | Pigs, Pimps & ProstitutesPublication details: Japan Nikkatsu Janus Films 2009Description: 3 videodisc (ca. 384 min.) sound, b&w. 4 3/4 inLOC classification:

PN1997 .P547 2009

Summary: In the 1960's, Japanese filmmakers responded to a stale studio system by looking for fresh ways to tell stories, and Shohei Imamura was one of the leading figures of this New Wave. With the three films in this set--Pigs and Battleships, The Insect Woman, and Intentions of Murder--Imamura truly emerged as an auteur, bringing to his national cinema an anthropological eye and a previously unseen taste for the irreverent. Claiming his interests lay in "the relationship of the lower part of the human body and the lower part of the social structure" Imamura dotted the decade with earthy, juicy, idiosyncratic films featuring persevering willful heroines. His remains a unique cinematic voice.

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In the 1960's, Japanese filmmakers responded to a stale studio system by looking for fresh ways to tell stories, and Shohei Imamura was one of the leading figures of this New Wave. With the three films in this set--Pigs and Battleships, The Insect Woman, and Intentions of Murder--Imamura truly emerged as an auteur, bringing to his national cinema an anthropological eye and a previously unseen taste for the irreverent. Claiming his interests lay in "the relationship of the lower part of the human body and the lower part of the social structure" Imamura dotted the decade with earthy, juicy, idiosyncratic films featuring persevering willful heroines. His remains a unique cinematic voice.

DVD video; Dolby Digital 1.0; monaural; NTSC; Regions 1; 2.35:1 as 16:9 widescreen.

Japanese audio. Optional English subtitles.

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