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May 30, 2006
Shohei Imamura, 1926-2006
Brilliant, contrarian Japanese director Shohei Imamura has died. "Imamura, a pioneer of his country's New Wave movement, won the Cannes Film Festival's [Palme d'Or] for The Ballad of Narayama in 1983 and The Eel in 1997," writes the BBC. Other remarkable movies: Warm Water Under a Red Bridge, Eijanaika and the indelible Vengeance is Mine. "Imamura's last work formed part of 11'09"01, a compilation of short films about events on 11 September 2001." Agence France-Press' Shigemi Sato quotes the great Japanese everyman actor Koji Yakusho, who starred in The Eel and Warm Water, "I feel so sad that we cannot see more Imamura movies that are original and powerful. He was a treasure of Japanese cinema."[Notes from a retrospective here.]
Posted by Ray Pride at May 30, 2006 03:41 PM
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