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Shôhei Imamura

Zegen (Zegen)

Edition 1987
124' - 1987 - Comedy - Dialogue: Mandarin, English, Japanese
Director: Shôhei Imamura Composer: Shinichirô Ikebe With: Ken Ogata, Mitsuko Baishô, Chun-Hsiung Ko
A 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.

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Credits

Director

Shôhei Imamura

Composer

Shinichirô Ikebe

With

Ken Ogata, Mitsuko Baishô, Chun-Hsiung Ko

Scenario

Shôhei Imamura, Kôta Okabe

Director of Photography

Masao Tochizawa

Editor

Hajime Okayasu

Producer

Yoshihiko Sugiyama, Kunio Takeshige, Jirô Ôba

More information

Dialogue

Mandarin, English, Japanese

Countries of production

Japan

Year

1987

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)

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