The Pornographers (Jinruigaku nyumon)

Ogata is a middle-aged Osakan who makes pathetic blue movies in a spirit of social service. His private life is far from satisfying. He lives with a widow named Haru, but she refuses to marry him, having been so instructed by her dead husband, whose spirit, she fears, inhabits the huge pat carp who watches her so balefully from its tank. But Ogata is also violently attracted to Haru’s nineteen-year-old daughter. When Haru dies and Ogata gets rejected by the daughter, he sets out in the pursuit of another dream : an ideal sex-object in the form of a life-size latex doll. This was the first picture made by the director’s independent company and the film that established Shohei Imamura’s reputation in the West.