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Shôhei Imamura

A Man Vanishes (Ningen johatsu)

Director Shôhei Imamura Music (original) Toshirô Mayuzumi Cast Shôhei Imamura, Shigeru Tsuyuguchi, Yoshie Hayakawa
130' - 1967 - Drama, Documentary - Format: 35mm - Dialogue: Japanese
For this film Imamura selected a name from police lists of one of the 30,000 missing persons, enlisted the aid of this man's fiancée, and embarked on a search for him, interviewing his friends, his relations, his employers, and his acquaintances, and filming the results with hidden cameras. Imamura's representatives in these interviews were an actor named Shigeru Tsuyuguchi and the missing man's fiancée, a girl named Yoshie. Then the director found himself faced by a totally unexpected development. It soon became apparent that Yoshie was losing interest in the search, and before long we find her declaring her love for the actor, Shigeru Tsuyuguchi.

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Credits

Directors

Shôhei Imamura

Music (original)

Toshirô Mayuzumi

Cast

Shôhei Imamura, Shigeru Tsuyuguchi, Yoshie Hayakawa

Director of Photography

Kenji Ishiguro

Editors

Mutsuo Tanji

More info

Dialogue

Japanese

Countries of production

Japan

Year

1967

Filmography

Shôhei Imamura
Stolen Desire (1958), Nishi Ginza Station (1958), Endless Desire (1958), My Second Brother (1959), Pigs and Battleships (1961), The Insect Woman (1963), Intentions of Murder (1964), The Pornographers (1966), A Man Vanishes (1967), Profound Desires of the Gods (1968), History of Postwar Japan as Told by a Bar Hostess (1970), Karayuki-san, the Making of a Prostitute (1975), Vengeance Is Mine (1979), Why Not? (1981), The Ballad of Narayama (1983), Zegen (1987), Black Rain (1989), The Eel (1997), Dr. Akagi (1998), Warm Water Under a Red Bridge (2001), September 11 (2002)

Technical Specs

Format
35mm