Movies by Director - Shohei Imamura (26 [Missing: 7]) 
| Title | Year | Director | Genre | Rating | Runtime | Added |
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| Endless Desire [Hateshinaki yokubô]A real gem from Imamura. A very dark crime comedy. | 1958 | Shohei Imamura | Comedy,Crime | 7.2 (425 votes) | 101 | 20211228 |
| Nishi Ginza Station [Nishi Ginza ekimae]While his wife and children are away on holiday, a henpecked, daydreaming pharmacist begins a flirtatious relationship with the pretty girl in the boutique opposite. Almost a Japanese screwball comedy. | 1958 | Shôhei Imamura | Comedy,Drama | 6.1 (336 votes) | 52 | 20230830 |
| Stolen Desire [Nusumareta yokujô]A rumbunctious and ribald tale of a troupe of travelling actors who alternate highlights of kabuki theatre with strip shows. | 1958 | Shohei Imamura | Comedy | 7.0 (625 votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| My Second Brother [Nianchan]Being a faithful 'company man', Yoshikawa moves steadily ahead within the Toho corporation. But Kaji, his old friend, makes his way through the dark side of the social world, working for a power broker who is plotting to take over Toho. Yoshikawa is given an order to investigate the company's information leakage that is seriously devaluing its stock price. In the course of the investigation, he happens to reunite with Kaji, and notices that his beloved Akiko, the only daughter of Toho's president, as well as a major share holder of the company, is in love with Kaji. For Yoshikawa, who is counting on a marriage with her that would secure his career and wealth, Kaji turns out to be an obstacle on his future path. | 1959 | Shohei Imamura | Drama | 6.9 (232 votes) | 101 | 20211228 |
| Pigs and Battleships [Buta to gunkan]A young hoodlum decides to work for a criminal organization that is tearing itself apart. | 1961 | Shohei Imamura | Comedy,Crime,Drama | 7.5 (2.3K votes) | 108 | 20220414 |
| Insect Woman, The [Nippon konchûki]Life story of a woman born in poverty trying to succeed. Through her many schemes, she faces her ups and downs in a cyclical nature, fueled mostly by self-interest. | 1963 | Shohei Imamura | Drama | 7.4 (2.2K votes) | 123 | 20220414 |
| Intentions of Murder [Akai satsui]A housewife living under her tyrannical husband has her life stressfully turned upside down after getting raped by a burglar. | 1964 | Shohei Imamura | Drama | 7.7 (1.6K votes) | 150 | 20211228 |
| Pornographers, The [Erogotoshi-tachi yori Jinruigaku nyûmon]While avoiding the mob and local authorities, a world-weary pornographer finds being a family man the most difficult as he wrestles with his own desires and afflictions. | 1966 | Shohei Imamura | Comedy,Drama | 7.3 (2.3K votes) | 120 | 20211228 |
| Man Vanishes, A [Ningen Johatsu]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. | 1967 | Shohei Imamura | Documentary,Drama | 7.2 (733 votes) | 130 | 20211228 |
| Profound Desires of the Gods [Kamigami no fukaki yokubô]An engineer from Tokyo arrives on a drought-ridden tropical island to drill a well to power a nearby sugar mill. He meets the inbred Futori family, hated by the locals for breaking religious customs. | 1968 | Shohei Imamura | Drama | 7.7 (1.6K votes) | 173 | 20211228 |
| History of Postwar Japan as Told by a Bar HostessNA | 1970 | | Documentary | | | Not Available |
| Making of a Prostitute, TheDocumentary - (The interviewer is an Asian male director, Shohei Imamura.) Interview with Kikuyo Zendo, a 73 year-old, Japanese, trafficked-in-1921, prostitute (karayuki-san) who spent the longer part of her life outside Japan in Mal | 1975 | Shohei Imamura | Documentary | 7.3 (114 votes) | 70 | 20211228 |
| Making of a Prostitute, TheNA | 1975 | | | | | Not Available |
| Vengeance is Mine [Fukushû suruwa wareniari]Chronological exploits of Iwao Enokizu, a murderous thief on the run. | 1979 | Shohei Imamura | Crime,Drama | 7.8 (6.4K votes) | 139 | 20211228 |
| Why Not [Eijanaika]Near the turbulent end of the Edo era, a man returning to Japan after exile in America searches for his wife and becomes swept up in the current of revolution in this incisive period drama from the great Shohei Imamura. | 1981 | Shohei Imamura | Drama,History | 6.9 (567 votes) | 151 | 20211228 |
| Ballad of Narayama, TheIn a poor 19th century rural Japanese village, everyone who reaches the age of 70 has to climb a nearby mountain to die. An old woman is getting close to the cut-off age, and we follow her last days with her family. | 1983 | Shohei Imamura | Drama,Mystery | 7.9 (8K votes) | 130 | 20211228 |
| ZegenA Japanese immigrant in 1901 Hong Kong wishes to become a simple shopkeeper. Fate soon intervenes, allowing him to mix adventure and fervent patriotism with greed. | 1987 | Shohei Imamura | Comedy | 6.9 (368 votes) | 124 | 20211228 |
| Black Rain [Kuroi ame]The story of the aftermath of the Hiroshima bombing, based on Masuji Ibuse's novel. | 1989 | Shohei Imamura | Drama,War | 7.9 (3.4K votes) | 123 | 20211228 |
| Eel, The [Unagi]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. | 1997 | Shohei Imamura | Comedy,Drama | 7.4 (5.9K votes) | 117 | 20211228 |
| Dr. Akagi [Kanzô sensei]At the end of WWII, Japanese doctor Akagi searches for the cure for hepatitis in the prisoner-of-war camp. | 1998 | Shohei Imamura | Comedy,Drama,History | 7.3 (1.5K votes) | 129 | 20211228 |
| Warm Water Under a Red Bridge [Akai hashi no shita no nurui mizu]A down-and-out businessman travels to a seaside town, where he meets a woman with unusual sexual powers. | 2001 | Shohei Imamura | Comedy,Drama,Fantasy | 6.8 (2.7K votes) | 119 | 20220414 |
| September 11 [11'09''01 - September 11]The effects of the 9/11 terrorist attacks are told from different points of view around the world. | 2002 | Alejandro González Iñárritu, Youssef Chahine, Amos Gitai, Shôhei Imamura, Alejandro G. Iñárritu | Drama | 6.9 (5.9K votes) | 134 | 20240715 |
| In Search of the Unreturned Soldiers in MalaysiaNA | 1970 | | Documentary | | | Not Available |
| Muhomatsu Returns HomeNA | 1973 | | Documentary | | | Not Available |
| In Search of the Unreturned Soldiers in ThailandNA | 1971 | | Documentary | | | Not Available |
| The Pirates of BubanNA | 1972 | | Documentary | | | Not Available |
| FantasiaNA | 1973 | | Music | | | Not Available |