TAB Event - Retrospective in Memory of Shohei Imamura and Kazuo Kuroki

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At National Film Center
Media: Film

Born in 1926, Shohei Imamura began his career joining Shochiku Ofuna Film Sudio in 1951, moving to the Nikkatsu Company later on, where he worked as an assistant for Yasujiro Ozu and Yuzo Kawashima. After his debut as a producer for "Stolen Desire", he started to garner a reputation for his chaotically energetic movies including "Big and Battleships" (1961), "The Insect Woman" (1963), and "Unholy Desire" (1964). His films are highly praised nationally and internationally for their dramatic depiction of instinctive desires triggering the dark side of human beings. After he established his own production studio, he explored movies, documentary films and even television dramas. He was awarded twice at Cannes Film Festival with "The Ballad of Narayama" (1983) and "The Eel" (1997).

Kazuo Kuroki was born in Mie prefecture in 1926, and joined the Iwanami Film Production Studio in 1954. Sharply depicting human identity isolated from society, his movies hold critical messages relevant to his background in documentary film production. In "Tomorrow" (1988), he focused on the lives of the masses under the influence of the Pacific War, and this spirit was carried through until his last movie "The Youth of Kamiya Etsuko".

Imamura and Kuroki have different styles, yet they have a lot in common: they both emerged during the golden age of the Japanese film industry, starting a revolt in its growing system; they both worked in documentary and fictional films, and both created works about social minorities and victims of war. A total of 43 works made by these significant film directors - until around 1990 - is being screened.

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