Shohei Imamura, Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2006)

Shōhei Imamura

Japanese film director (1926–2006)

Shōhei Imamura was a Japanese film director. His main interest as a filmmaker lay in the depiction of the lower strata of Japanese society. A key figure in the Japanese New Wave, who continued working into the 21st century, Imamura is the only director from Japan to win two…