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Shohei Imamura
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Director, Screenwriter Born: September 15, 1926 in Tokyo, Japan Death: May 30, 2006 in Tokyo, Japan Biography:"Shohei Imamura"'s ribald, darkly comic films about messy human relationships and coarse, indomitable women repelled early European critics who had grown to cherish the graceful, exotic image of Japan typified by "Kenji Mizoguchi" films. Yet Imamura remains a critically important director, both as one of the seminal Japanese New Wave directors (along with "Nagisa Oshima" and "Masahiro Shinoda") and as a chronicler of a side of Japan rarely seen in Mizoguchi movies or tourist brochures.
Born in 1926, in Tokyo, Imamura attended the elite elementary and middle schools that normally would have aimed him toward a prestigious university degree and a comfortable career in business or government. His love of theater and loathing of bourgeois presumptions, however, steered him away from a conventional lifestyle. When he failed the entrance exam for the agriculture program at the national university in... Full Biography
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