The Pornographers
Subu makes pornographic films. He sees nothing wrong with it. They are an aid to a repressed society, and he uses the money to support his landlady, Haru, and her family. From time to time, Haru shares her bed with Subu, though she believes her dead husband, reincarnated as a carp, disapproves. Director Shohei Imamura has always delighted in the kinky exploits of lowlifes, and in this 1966 classic, he finds subversive humor in the bizarre dynamics of Haru, her Oedipal son, and her daughter, the true object of her pornographer-boyfriend's obsession. Imamura's comic treatment of such taboos as voyeurism and incest sparked controversy when the film was released, but The Pornographers has outlasted its critics, and now seems frankly ahead of its time.
Special Features
- Theatrical trailer
- New and improved English subtitle translation
New cover by Christine Ditrio
Special Features
- Theatrical trailer
- New and improved English subtitle translation
New cover by Christine Ditrio
Cast
- Shoichi Ozawa
- Yoshimoto “Subu” Ogata
- Sumiko Sakamoto
- Haru Masuda
- Masaomi Kondo
- Koichi
- Keiko Sakawa
- Keiko
Credits
- Director
- Shohei Imamura
- Producer
- Shohei Imamura
- Producer
- Jiro Tomoda
- Producer
- Issei Yamamoto
- Director of photography
- Shinsaku Himeda
- Screenplay
- Shohei Imamura
- Screenplay
- Koji Numata
- From the novel by
- Akiyuki Nozaka
- Original music by
- Toshiro Mayuzumi
- Editing
- Matsuo Tanji
- Art direction
- Hiromi Shiozawi
- Art direction
- Ichirô Takada
- Sound
- Shinichi Beniya
