Shōhei Imamura
- Directing
- September 15, 1926 · Tokyo, Japan
- May 30, 2006
Biography
Shōhei Imamura (15 September 1926 – 30 May 2006) was a Japanese film director. He was the first Japanese director to win two Palme d'Or awards, but was never Oscar-nominated in any category.
Known for
Filmography
- Japanese Cinema: New Territories · Self
- Wives in 30's to 50's · Second Assistant Director
- September 11 · Director
- 2009: Lost Memories · Historian
- Warm Water Under a Red Bridge · Director, Screenplay
- Dr. Akagi · Director, Screenplay
- The Eel · Director, Screenplay
- Shohei Imamura: The Freethinker · Self
- Black Rain · Screenplay, Director
- The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On · Associate Producer
- Zegen · Director, Writer
- Have You Seen the Barefoot God? · Producer
- I Lived, But... · Self
- The Ballad of Narayama · Director, Screenplay
- Eijanaika · Director, Producer
- Vengeance Is Mine · Director
- The Youth Killer · Producer
- Outlaw-Matsu Comes Home · Self, Director
- Karayuki-San, the Making of a Prostitute · Self, Director
- The Pirates of Buban · Self, Director
- My Shimokita · Self, Director
- Following the Unreturned Soldier: Thailand · Director
- History of Postwar Japan as Told by a Bar Hostess · Director, Writer
- Following the Unreturned Soldiers: Malaysia · Director
- Profound Desires of the Gods · Director, Screenplay
- East China Sea · Writer, Producer
- The Neon Taiheiki · Writer
- A Man Vanishes · Self, Director
- The Pornographers · Director, Producer
- Intentions of Murder · Director, Screenplay
- The Insect Woman · Director, Writer
- The Gambling Monk · Screenplay
- A Modern Samurai Village · Screenplay
- Foundry Town · Screenplay
- Pigs and Battleships · Director
- My Second Brother · Director, Screenplay
- Endless Desire · Director, Screenplay
- Nishi Ginza Station · Director, Screenplay
- Stolen Desire · Director
- Mountain Pass · Assistant Director
- A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era · Assistant Director, Screenplay
- Hungry Soul · Assistant Director
- Our Town · Second Assistant Director
- Suzaki Paradise: Red Light District · Assistant Director
- The Balloon · Screenplay, Assistant Director
- Tales of Ginza · Assistant Director
- Till We Meet Again · First Assistant Director
- Burden of Love · First Assistant Director
- The Moon Has Risen · Assistant Director
- Tokyo Story · Second Assistant Director
- The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice · Assistant Director
- Early Summer · Assistant Director