Shohei Imamura's Japan June 22, 2007
2625 Durant Ext
Berkeley, California 94720
Berkeley, California 94720
The Japanese master Shohei Imamura is famous for the controversial subject matter and raw energy of his films. Imamura's Japan is a sensual and often cruel universe untouched by the tea ceremony, Zen, or conventional gentility.
Added by rybesh on May 28, 2007
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Black Rain: An intimate home drama set mostly at the beginning of the 50s, its carefully composed monochrome photography reminds us that Imamura began his career as an assistant to Yasujiro Ozu at Shochiku. With its story centred around the attempts of Shigematsu (Kitamura) and Shigeko (Ichihara) to marry off their niece Yasuko (Tanaka), her blood tainted after the atomic blast that destroyed most of Hiroshima, Black Rain sometimes feels like a hibakusha take on such films as Early Spring.