Incest in Japanese New Wave Cinema

By: Mono No Aware

I’m playing fast and loose with my definition of incest, by including in-laws and stepfathers, but this is a surprisingly recurrent theme in Japanese New Wave films. I’m sure there are some more examples (more than likely directed by Imamura) but I’m drawing a blank at the moment.

• 01
  The Insect Woman
  Shôhei Imamura
• 02
  A Story Written with Water
  Yoshishige Yoshida
• 03
  The Face of Another
  Hiroshi Teshigahara
• 04
  The Pornographers
  Shôhei Imamura
• 05
  Secrets Behind the Wall
  Kôji Wakamatsu
• 06
  Profound Desires of the Gods
  Shôhei Imamura
• 07
  Death by Hanging
  Nagisa Ôshima
• 08
  Nanami: The Inferno of First Love
  Susumu Hani
• 09
  Funeral Parade of Roses
  Toshio Matsumoto
• 10
  This Transient Life
  Akio Jissoji
• 11
  Heroic Purgatory
  Yoshishige Yoshida
• 12
  The Ceremony
  Nagisa Ôshima
• 13
  Confessions Among Actresses
  Yoshishige Yoshida
• 14
  Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets
  Shûji Terayama
• 15
  Pastoral: To Die in the Country
  Shûji Terayama
• 16
  Farewell to the Ark
  Shûji Terayama