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30 June 1964 (USA)
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Amorality in Japan. Tome is born into poverty in rural Japan, in the late 1910s. Chuji, her father, dotes on her; her mother is less faithful...
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THE INSECT WOMAN (Shohei Imamura, 1963) ***
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Cast
(Credited cast) | Emiko Aizawa | ... | Rui |
| Masumi Harukawa | ... | Midori |
| Sachiko Hidari | ... | Tome Matsuki |
| Emiko Higashi | ... | Kane |
| Daizaburo Hirata | ... | Kamibayashi |
| Seizaburô Kawazu | ... | Karasawa |
| Teruko Kishi | ... | Rin |
| Tanie Kitabayashi | ... | Madam |
| Kazuo Kitamura | ... | Chuji |
| Asao Koike | ... | Sawakichi |
| Masakazu Kuwayama | ... | Owagawa En's Lover |
| Hiroyuki Nagato | ... | Matsunami |
| Shoichi Ozawa | ... | Ken |
| Sumie Sasaki | ... | En |
| Taiji Tonoyama | ... | Foreman |
| Shigeru Tsuyuguchi | ... | Honda |
| Jitsuko Yoshimura | ... | Nobuko |
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123 min
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2.35 : 1 more
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Mono (Westrex Recording System)
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Featured in "Cinéma, de notre temps: Shohei Imamura - Le libre penseur" (1995)
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THE INSECT WOMAN is essentially a rags-to-riches-to-rags story told in fragmentary style against a backdrop of significant historical events of 20th Century Japan. The film's title (it also goes by the more clinical name of ENTOMOLOGICAL CHRONICLES OF JAPAN!) remains obscure, however, unless the director wants to assimilate Japanese women to hard-working (i.e. slave-like) insects. Indeed, leading lady Sachiko Hidari (an excellent, award-winning performance) slowly rises from the position of simple prostitute in an exclusive brothel to that of - the equivalent of a Queen Bee, one assumes - madam of said establishment (eventually being replaced by her own daughter!). There is also a subtle hint of incest here, with the woman's father showing an unhealthy interest in her growing up - an affection which is then transferred to the daughter, once she leaves the country for the big city! Another interesting, if entirely gratuitous, touch is the director's idiosyncratic (since it is heavily featured in all 3 of his early films I've watched) use of freeze-framing as a means of transition from one scene to the next.