From the 20 to 26th September a Tribute to the Japanese director Shohei Imamura will be held in Athens and from 27th September to 3 October in Thessaloniki.
Shohei Imamura, awarded twice the Palm D’Or at the Cannes Film Festival, is one of the most important living Japanese film directors. To present this event to the Greek audiences the Festival has invited the Positif film critic, Hubert Niogret an expert on Imamura’s work.
This event is organized by the Greek Ministry of Culture and the Thessaloniki Film Festival with the aid of the Japan Film Foundation the Cineteca del Comune di Bologna and the Mostra del Cinema Libero and the support of the Filmcenter.
The films included in this tribute are:
Akai hashi no shita no nurui mizu Warm Water Under a Red Bridge
Kanzo sensei Dr. Akagi
Unagi The Eel
Kuroi ame Black Rain
Zegen Narayama bushiko Ballad of Narayama
Eijanaika Why Not?
Fukushû suruwa wareniari Vengeance Is Mine
Nippon Sengoshi - Madamu onboro no Seikatsu History of Postwar Japan as Told by a Bar Hostess
Kamigami no Fukaki Yokubo The Profound Desire of the Gods
Ningen Johatsu A Man Vanishes
Jinruigaku nyumon The Pornographer
Akai satsui Intentions of Murder
Nippon konchuki The Insect Woman
Buta to gunkan Pigs and Battleships
Nianchan My Second Brother
Hateshinaki yokubo Endless Desire
Nishi Ginza ekimae Nishi Ginza
Nusumareta yokujo Stolen Desire
