Director
Shôhei Imamura
Music (original)
Shinichirô Ikebe
Cast
Ken Ogata, Rentaro Mikuni, Chôchô Miyako
Edition 1998
139'
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1979
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Crime, Drama
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Format:
35mm
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Dialogue:
English, 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)
Shinichirô Ikebe
Cast
Ken Ogata, Rentaro Mikuni, Chôchô Miyako
Scenario
Masaru Baba, Ryûzô Saki, Shunsaku Ikehata
Director of Photography
Shinsaku Himeda
Editors
Keiichi Uraoka
Producers
Kazuo Inoue
More info
Dialogue
English, Japanese
Countries of production
Japan
Screenplay based on
Vengeance Is Mine (Ryuzo Saki)
Year
1979
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