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Subu makes pornographic films. He sees nothing wrong with it. They are an aid to a repressed society, and he uses the money to support his landlady, Haru, and her family. From time to time, Haru shares her bed with Subu, though she believes her dead husband, reincarnated as a carp, disapproves. Director Shohei Imamura has always delighted in the kinky exploits of lowlifes, and in this 1966 classic, he finds subversive humor in the bizarre dynamics of Haru, her Oedipal son, and her daughter, the true object of her pornographer-boyfriend’s obsession. Imamura’s comic treatment of such taboos as voyeurism and incest sparked controversy when the film was released, but The Pornographers has outlasted its critics, and now seems frankly ahead of its time.
Directed by Shōhei Imamura
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Shoichi Ozawa
Yoshimoto 'Subu' Ogata

Sumiko Sakamoto
Haru Masuda

Keiko Sagawa
Keiko Matsuda

Masaomi Kondo
Koichi Matsuda

Haruo Tanaka
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Ganjirō Nakamura II
Elderly Executive

Chōchō Miyako
Brothel Madame

Kō Nishimura
Detective Sanada

Ichirō Sugai
Shinun Ogata

Shinichi Nakano
Kabo

Kazuo Kitamura
Doctor

Asao Uchida
Furukawa
Letters to Amina
2017