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Shohei Imamura: The Free Thinker
Shohei Imamura: The Free Thinker
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SHOHEI IMAMURA: THE FREE THINKER

Cinéma, de notre temps: Shohei Imamura - Le libre penseur

Directed by Paulo Rocha
France, 1995
Documentary, TV Movie

Synopsis

Portuguese filmmaker Paulo Rocha set out to make his film portrait of Shohei Imamura in the hope of revealing a “grotesque anarchist,” the bold iconoclast whose films had seemed so shocking in the Sixties and Seventies. Yet Rocha arrives to discover a much tamer man than he imagined.

Synopsis

Portuguese filmmaker Paulo Rocha set out to make his film portrait of Shohei Imamura in the hope of revealing a “grotesque anarchist,” the bold iconoclast whose films had seemed so shocking in the Sixties and Seventies. Yet Rocha arrives to discover a much tamer man than he imagined.