Killers, Clients and Kindred Spirits

The Taboo Cinema of Shohei Imamura

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Edited by Lindsay Coleman and David Desser

Type

Studies

Subject

Director > Shôhei Imamura

Keywords

Shôhei Imamura, director, Japan

Publishing date

2019

Publisher

Edinburgh University Press

Collection

Edinburgh Studies in East Asian Film

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Hardcover • 360 pages
6 x 9 ¼ inches (15.5 x 23.5 cm)

ISBN

978-1-4744-1181-3

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Book Presentation:
A thorough exploration of the work of one of Japan’s most controversial directors

The only Japanese director to have won the Palme d’Or from Cannes more than once, and second only to Ozu Yasujiro in the number of times he has won the prestigious Kinema Jumpo Best One award, the late Imamura Shohei was one of Japan’s leading and most controversial film directors. This book is one of the first to study all of Imamura’s major films alongside his television and theatrical documentaries, focusing on his major themes and concerns. By giving shape to Imamura’s career, the book positions him as a stylistic innovator as well as an ethnographic investigator into Japanese culture and tradition; the preeminent examiner of the hidden, barely repressed underpinnings of Japanese society.

Key features
• The first book to look at the entire career of Imamura Shohei
• Incorporates the work of top Japanese Cinema scholars from the US, UK, Australia, Canada and Japan
• Organised by thematic concerns that cut across Imamura’s careerAbout the Contributors:
• John Berra, Renmin University of China
• Adam Bingham, SOAS, University of London
• Bianca Briciu, Carleton University and St. Paul University, Ottawa
• Jennifer Coates, University of East Anglia
• Lindsay Coleman, independent scholar
• David Deamer, Manchester Metropolitan University
• Rayna Denison, University of East Anglia
• David Desser, University of Illinois
• Timothy Iles, University of Victoria, Canada
• Mats Karlsson, University of Sydney
• Hiroshi Kitamura, College of William and Mary
• Lauri Kitsnik, Kyoto University
• Diane Wei Lewis, Washington University in St. Louis
• Dolores P. Martinez, SOAS, University of London and University of Oxford
• Joan Mellen, Emerita, Temple University
• Bill Mihalopoulos, University of Central Lancaster
• Michael Raine, Western University, Canada

About the authors:
Lindsay Coleman is an independent film producer, and is completing his phD thesis at the University of MelbourneDavid Desser is Professor Emeritus of Cinema Studies at the University of Illinois and Dean of Anaheim University Akira Kurosawa School of Film. He is the author or editor of several books, including Ozu’s Tokyo Story (1997) and Eros Plus Massacre: An Introduction to the Japanese New Wave 1988), Killers, Clients and Kindred Spirits (2019, EUP) and A Companion to Japanese Cinema (2022). He provided the DVD commentaries for the Criterion Editions of Tokyo Story and Seven Samurai, and is co-editor of The Journal of Japanese and Korean Cinema.

See the publisher website: Edinburgh University Press

See the complete filmography of Shôhei Imamura on the website: IMDB ...