Posts Tagged ‘SHOHEI IMAMURA’

THE WEEK April 21–27

HEBBEL AM UFER “soon you are theirs” – GROUP SHOW Retrospective Festival: Apr. 22 – Apr. 27, 2014 HAU1, HAU2, HAU3 KIENZLE ART FOUNDATION “Documentary Works” – GUILLAUME CAILLEAU Exhibition: Apr. 23 – Sept. 13, 2014
Opening Exhibition: Tuesday, Apr. 22; 7-9pm[…]


Announcement // The Pornographers Screening at Prince Charles

Berlin Art Link Discover, Art Work by Shohei Imamura; courtesy of Berlin Film Society

Blog post by AJ Kiyoizumi – in Berlin; Friday, Apr. 18, 2014.

A entrepreneur with a porn business is a surprising choice for the protagonist of a film, particularly one from the 1960’s. But Japanese director Shohei Imamura‘s surreal story, The Pornographers (1966) features no conventions, as the twice Palme d’Or winning director has included other characters in the film such as a woman who believes her husband to be reincarnated as a fish…[read on…]