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The Ballad of Narayama (1983)

Summary: In a poor 19th century rural Japanese village, everyone who reaches the age of 70 has to climb a nearby mountain to die. An elderly woman is reaching close to her cut-off age during her last days with her family.

Release Date: April 29, 1983

Genre: Drama

Director: Shôhei Imamura

Writers: Shôhei Imamura

, Shichirô Fukazawa

Runtime: 2 h 10 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Toei Company

Distributor: Kino International

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

8 - ZR Rating
1801 votes

A Man Vanishes (1967)

Summary: Plastics salesman Oshima disappeared without a word to anyone, and has been missing for two years. Shohei Imamura and his crew follow Oshima's fiancé Yoshie and actor Shigeru Tsuyuguchi as they investigate the disappearance.

Genre: Documentary

Director: Shôhei Imamura

Runtime: 2 h 10 min

Production: Art Theatre Guild (ATG), Imamura Productions, Nihon Eiga Shinsha

Distributor: Icarus Films, Japanese New Wave Cinema Classics, Toho Company

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Domestic: $ 6,201

International: $ 9,256

7.8 - ZR Rating
22742 votes

The Eel (1997)

Summary: A businessman kills his adulterous wife and is sent to prison. After the release, he opens a barbershop and meets new people, talking almost to no one except an eel he befriended while in prison.

Release Date: August 21, 1998

Genre: Drama

Director: Shôhei Imamura

Writers: Shôhei Imamura

, Daisuke Tengan

, Motofumi Tomikawa

Runtime: 1 h 57 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Eisei Gekijo, Groove Corporation, Imamura Productions, Satellite Cinema, Shochiku

Distributor: New Yorker Films

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Domestic: $ 418,480

7.8 - ZR Rating
4987 votes

Dr. Akagi (1998)

Summary: At the end of WWII, Japanese doctor Akagi searches for the cure for hepatitis in the prisoner-of-war camp.

Release Date: January 15, 1999

Genres: Comedy, Drama, History

Director: Shôhei Imamura

Writers: Shôhei Imamura

, Ango Sakaguchi

, Daisuke Tengan

Runtime: 2 h 09 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Catherine Dussart Productions (CDP), Comme des Cinémas, Imamura Productions, Kadokawa Shoten Publishing Co., Toei Company, Tohokushinsha Film Corporation (TFC)

Distributor: Kino International, Kino Video

Countries: Japan, France

Language: Japanese

Domestic: $ 71,832

7.5 - ZR Rating
1267 votes

Seishun no satsujinsha (1976)

Summary: Though his parents help him run the family business, Jun still feels persecuted by their love; when they bar him from meeting with his girlfriend, tensions increase.

Release Date: October 23, 1976

Genres: Drama, Crime

Director: Kazuhiko Hasegawa