2 Movies Starring Shèichi Ozawa

The Pornographers

The Pornographers

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1966-08-01

Languages:

Japanese

Countries:

Japan

Runtime:

120 min

Rated:

NOT RATED

IMDB Ratings:

7.5 (1474 Reviews)

Director:

Shèhei Imamura

Genres:

ComedyDrama

Cast:

Writer:

Shèhei Imamura

Akiyuki Nosaka (novel)

Koji Numata

Fullplot:

Mr. Ogata lives a complicated life: he is a pornographer making two skin flicks per day and trying to stay beneath the radar screen of the local mob; he deeply loves his ailing wife Haru who's cursed by the restless spirit of her dead first husband; he also has a mistress, a step-son who wants to go to university, and a step-daughter entering adolescence. He lusts after his step-daughter, and when Haru finds out about those sexual advances, she asks him to marry the girl. Haru even signs over her business to him, and a crisis ensues when Ogata uses her nest egg to buy equipment so he and his pals can set up their own film processing lab. Surreal images and events weave their way into Ogata's life.

Black Rain

Black Rain

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1989-09-17

Languages:

Japanese

Countries:

Japan

Runtime:

123 min

Rated:

NOT RATED

IMDB Ratings:

(2042 Reviews)

Director:

Shèhei Imamura

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Masuji Ibuse (novel)

Shèhei Imamura

Toshirè Ishidè

Fullplot:

Mr and Mrs Shizuma, and their niece Yasuko, make their way through the ruins of Hiroshima, just after the atomic bomb has dropped. Five years later, Yasuko is living with her aunt and uncle, and her senile grandmother, in a village containing many of the bomb survivors. Yasuko does not appear to be affected by the bomb, but the Shizuma's are worried about her marriage prospects, as she could succumb to radiation sickness at any time.

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