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The Pornographers

Original title: Erogotoshi-tachi yori: Jinruigaku nyûmon
  • 19661966
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  • 2h
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7.2/10
2.4K
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The Pornographers (1966)
ComedyDrama
While avoiding the mob and local authorities, a world-weary pornographer finds being a family man the most difficult as he wrestles with his own desires and afflictions.While avoiding the mob and local authorities, a world-weary pornographer finds being a family man the most difficult as he wrestles with his own desires and afflictions.While avoiding the mob and local authorities, a world-weary pornographer finds being a family man the most difficult as he wrestles with his own desires and afflictions.
IMDb RATING
7.2/10
2.4K
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    • Shôhei Imamura
    • Akiyuki Nosaka(novel)
    • Shôhei Imamura(screenplay)
    • Koji Numata(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Shôichi Ozawa
    • Sumiko Sakamoto
    • Keiko Sagawa
    • Shôhei Imamura
    • Akiyuki Nosaka(novel)
    • Shôhei Imamura(screenplay)
    • Koji Numata(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Shôichi Ozawa
    • Sumiko Sakamoto
    • Keiko Sagawa
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    Shôichi Ozawa
    • Ogata(Subu)…
    Sumiko Sakamoto
    • Haru…
    Keiko Sagawa
    • Keiko…
    Masaomi Kondô
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    Haruo Tanaka
    Haruo Tanaka
    • Banteki…
    Ganjirô Nakamura
    Ganjirô Nakamura
    • Elderly Executive
    Chôchô Miyako
    • Brothel Madame
    Kô Nishimura
    Kô Nishimura
    • Sanada…
    Ichirô Sugai
    Ichirô Sugai
    • Shinun…
    Shinichi Nakano
    • Kabo…
    Kazuo Kitamura
    • Doctor
    Asao Uchida
    • Furukawa
    Taiji Tonoyama
    Taiji Tonoyama
    Jun Hamamura
    Jun Hamamura
    Kin Sugai
    Kin Sugai
    Sayoko Kinoshita
    Kayako Sono
    Shôzô Fukuyama
      • Shôhei Imamura
      • Akiyuki Nosaka(novel)
      • Shôhei Imamura(screenplay)
      • Koji Numata(screenplay)
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    • Trivia
      An English-subtitled print included among the opening credits the phrase, approximately, "presented by Doctors Phyllis and Eberhardt Kronhausen" - the well-known sexologists.
    • Quotes

      Koichi: Get more money from him. He makes plenty from his dirty business. Society has to suffer so he can send me to college.

    • Connections
      Featured in Cinéma, de notre temps: Shohei Imamura, le libre penseur (1995)

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    10/10
    Japanese odd delicious treat
    In The Pornographers, 1966, Shôhei Imamura manages to juggle intelligently with universal taboos (pornography, prostitution, incest, fetishism, orgies) challenging the viewer to think than just to consume the visual product by using minimum of nudity; the provocative situations are discretely suggested and not viscerally exposed, and it works because it is impossible to accuse of cheapness or exploitation such an interesting smart cinematographic approach on the subject of sex in a Japanese society full of contrasts, caught in-between the conservative ways of the past and the effervescence of the corrupt morals of the modern era; sex and money are the spinning wheels of the human convoy routing and sinking it into moral and physical decay; the film abounds in visual oddities, bizarre shooting angles providing its aesthetic a brisk geometry, intriguing spontaneous flashbacks, inspired touches of black comedy, and finds an equilibrate formula to wisely highlight subjects considered dirty and shameful in a very clean, frank, witty and somehow cheerful manner
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    • May 16, 2012

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      • August 12, 1966 (United States)
      • Japan
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      • Imamura Productions
      • Nikkatsu
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    • 2 hours
      • Black and White
      • Mono

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