Where to watch Shōhei Imamura in the UK
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Shōhei Imamura (15 September 1926 – 30 May 2006) was a Japanese film director. He was the first Japanese director to win two Palme d'Or awards, but was never Oscar-nominated in any category.
Shōhei Imamura films streaming in the UK
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- Tokyo Story (1953) Second Assistant Director
- The Eel (1997) Director
- Profound Desires of the Gods (1968) Director
- Vengeance Is Mine (1979) Director
- The Ballad of Narayama (1983) Director
- September 11 (2002) Director
- Black Rain (1989) Screenplay
- Warm Water Under a Red Bridge (2001) Director
- Early Summer (1951) Assistant Director
- 2009: Lost Memories (2002) as Historian
- The Moon Has Risen (1955) Assistant Director
- Dr. Akagi (1998) Director
- My Second Brother (1959) Director
- The Insect Woman (1963) Director
- The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice (1952) Assistant Director
- A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era (1957) Assistant Director
- Zegen (1987) Director
- Intentions of Murder (1964) Director
- Till We Meet Again (1955) First Assistant Director
- Pigs and Battleships (1961) Director
- Why Not? (1981) Director
- The Youth Killer (1976) Producer
- The Pornographers (1966) Director
- Tales of Ginza (1955) Assistant Director
- Stolen Desire (1958) Director
- Burden of Love (1955) First Assistant Director
- Suzaki Paradise: Red Light District (1956) Assistant Director
- I Lived, But... (1983) as Self
- Have You Seen the Barefoot God? (1986) Producer
- Foundry Town (1962) Screenplay
- East China Sea (1968) Producer
- The Balloon (1956) Screenplay
- The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On (1987) Associate Producer
- Endless Desire (1958) Director
- The Gambling Monk (1963) Screenplay
- Japanese Cinema: New Territories (2011) as Self (archive footage)
- The Pirates of Buban (1972) Director
- Our Town (1956) Second Assistant Director
- A Modern Samurai Village (1963) Screenplay
- A Man Vanishes (1967) Director
- Mountain Pass (1957) Assistant Director
- Wives in 30's to 50's (2002) Second Assistant Director
- Neon taiheiki (1968) Writer
- Nishi Ginza Station (1958) Director
- History of Postwar Japan as Told by a Bar Hostess (1970) Writer
- Karayuki-San, the Making of a Prostitute (1973) Director
- Hungry Soul (1956) Assistant Director
- Shohei Imamura: The Free Thinker (1995) as Himself
- Oreno Shimokita (1972) Director
- Outlaw-Matsu Comes Home (1973) Director
- Following the Unreturned Soldier: Thailand (1971) Director
- Following the Unreturned Soldiers: Malaysia (1970) Director
- Fantasia (1973) Director
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