Shohei Imamura

GFT is delighted to be screening some rare work from Japanese director Shohei Imamura.

The only Japanese director to twice win the Palme d’Or at Cannes, Imamura was a crucial, yet ambiguous, figure in the Japanese new wave. He learned his trade under Yasujiro Ozu, but quickly rejected Ozu’s restraint and quiet eloquence, bringing instead an anthropological eye and a previously unseen taste for the irreverent. His films depict the extremities of Japanese life, their characters rarely more than an insect’s crawl away from jungle law and pig-sty madness. His remains a unique cinematic voice.

Ticket Deal: See all five films for £25/£20 (£20/£15 CineCard holders). Tickets must be purchased at the same time.

Thanks to Alastair Cameron at the Arnolfini, Bristol.
Prints supplied by the Japan Foundation.