Shohei Imamura was a Japanese film director who lived from 15 September 1926 to 30 May 2006. His main interest as a filmmaker lay in the depiction of the lower strata of Japanese society. A key figure in the Japanese New Wave who continued working into the twenty-first century, he is the only director from Japan to win two Palme d'Or awards, for The Ballad of Narayama in 1983 and The Eel in 1997. The Ballad of Narayama is listed here as a work.
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A key figure in the Japanese New Wave, who continued working into the 21st century, Imamura is the only director from Japan to win two Palme d'Or awards, doing so with The Ballad of Narayama (1983) and The Eel (1997).
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