📜 Overview:
Subu makes pornographic films. He sees nothing wrong with it. They are an aid to a repressed society, and he uses the money to support his landlady, Haru, and her family. From time to time, Haru shares her bed with Subu, though she believes her dead husband, reincarnated as a carp, disapproves. Director Shohei Imamura has always delighted in the kinky exploits of lowlifes, and in this 1966 classic, he finds subversive humor in the bizarre dynamics of Haru, her Oedipal son, and her daughter, the true object of her pornographer-boyfriend’s obsession. Imamura’s comic treatment of such taboos as voyeurism and incest sparked controversy when the film was released, but The Pornographers has outlasted its critics, and now seems frankly ahead of its time.
🌏 Languages Available:
Japanese
📆 Date Released:
1966-03-12
⌚ Running Time:
128 mins
⭐ Vote Average:
7.3
Beloved Cast
Yoshimoto 'Subu' Ogata
Shoichi Ozawa
Haru Masuda
Sumiko Sakamoto
Keiko Matsuda
Keiko Sagawa
Koichi Matsuda
Masaomi Kondo
Banteki
Haruo Tanaka
Elderly Executive
Ganjirō Nakamura II
Brothel Madame
Chōchō Miyako
Detective Sanada
Kō Nishimura
Shinun Ogata
Ichirō Sugai
Kabo
Shinichi Nakano
Doctor
Kazuo Kitamura
Furukawa
Asao Uchida
Father
Taiji Tonoyama
Company Manager
Jun Hamamura
Teacher Oda
Kin Sugai
Second-hand Bookstore Owner
Sayoko Kinoshita
Wife
Kayako Sono
Prayer
Shōzō Fukuyama
Nishioka
Shuntaro Tamamura
Middle-aged Man
Hyōe Enoki
Old Man
Tokushichi Ogura
Housewife
Yasuko Nishioka
