TY  - BOOK
AU  - Shôhei Imamura
AU  - Shôhei Imamura
TI  - Pigs, Pimps & Prostitutes
AV  - PN1997 .P547 2009
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Japan
PB  - Nikkatsu, Janus Films
N1  - <based on, contains the following, public viewing rights>
N2  - 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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