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Director:
Shôhei Imamura
Writers:
Shôhei Imamura
Akiyuki Nosaka (novel)
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Release Date:
August 1966 (USA) See more »
Genre:
Comedy | Drama See more »
Plot:
Mr. Ogata lives a complicated life: he is a pornographer making two skin flicks per day and trying to... See more » | Add synopsis »
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Awards:
3 wins See more »
User Reviews:
Completely innovative See more (10 total) »

Cast

  (in credits order)
Shôichi Ozawa ... Yoshimoto 'Sub' Ogata
Sumiko Sakamoto ... Haru Masuda
Masaomi Kondo ... Koichi Matsudo
Keiko Sagawa ... Keiko Matsudo
Ganjirô Nakamura ... Elderly Client
Chôchô Miyako
Haruo Tanaka
Shinichi Nakano
Kô Nishimura
Ichirô Sugai
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Directed by
Shôhei Imamura 
 
Writing credits
(in alphabetical order)
Shôhei Imamura 
Akiyuki Nosaka  novel
Koji Numata 

Produced by
Jirô Tomoda .... producer
 
Original Music by
Toshiro Kusunoki 
Toshirô Mayuzumi 
 
Cinematography by
Shinsaku Himeda 
 
Film Editing by
Mutsuo Tanji 
 
Art Direction by
Hiromi Shiozawi 
Ichirô Takada 
 
Sound Department
Kenichi Benitani .... sound recordist
 

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Additional Details

Also Known As:
"Erogotoshi-tachi yori: Jinruigaku nyûmon" - Japan (original title)
"The Amorists" - USA
"The Pornographers: Introduction to Anthropology" - USA (complete title)
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Runtime:
128 min | USA:120 min
Country:
Japan
Language:
Japanese
Color:
Black and White
Aspect Ratio:
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Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
Canada:G (Québec) | Singapore:M18 | USA:Not Rated
Company:
Imamura ProductionsSee more »

Did You Know?

Trivia:
An English-subtitled print included among the opening credits the phrase, approximately, "presented by Doctors Phyllis and Eberhardt Kronhausen" - the well-known sexologists.See more »
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Referenced in The Killing Floor (2007)See more »

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21 out of 26 people found the following review useful.
Completely innovative, 19 August 2001
Author: hedricj

Saw this film in a wonderful class on Japanese new wave cinema (thanks, Jyotsna). Along with Imamura's "Ballad of Narayama," some of the finest Japanese work I've seen. This film is brilliant in its portrayal of modern voyeurism and its psychological implications. Beyond that though, it stands out as a film preparing us for things to come in the cinema of the 90's. It took pt Anderson's "magnolia" to finally bring full circle some of the innovative qualities of this truly amazing film. Note the merging of the wonderful score and the main character's consciousness at the end of the film. Shocking, sad, and beautiful.

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