The Pornographers
Price: | $27 |
List Price: |
|
You Save: | $2.95 (10% Off) |
Available:
Usually ships in 3-5 business days
Brand New
|
DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 2 hours, 7 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: August 5, 2003
- Originally Released: 1966
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Shoichi Ozawa | |
Performer: | Sumiko Sakamoto & Haruo Tanaka | |
Directed by | Shôhei Imamura |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3.5/5 --
For you porn fans, The Pornographers will be a letdown
Full Review
Filmcritic.com
Rating: 87/100 --
Shohei Imamura at the height of his art, merging style and substance into a provocative and daring film.
Apollo Guide
Rating: B --
territory more commonly explored by Buñuel and Fellini.
Full Review
Old School Reviews
Rating: A --
Weird, funny, brilliantly directed.
Reno Gazette-Journal
Its heady mix of sexual politics and tangled relationships requires repeated viewing
rec.arts.movies.reviews
...[Imamura shows] real and piquant eccentricity....A great many flashes of dark humor...
New York Times
Rating: B - Recommended
Entertainment Weekly
Product Description:
In director Shohei Imamura's THE PORNOGRAPHERS, Yoshimoto Ogata (Shoichi Ozawa), a man who believes it is his patriotic duty to provide smut to his fellow men, uses the profits from his 8mm films to support his lover and her two children. Although there are never any explicit sex scenes, the film contains plenty of shocking material--intimations of incest, the exploitation of a mentally retarded girl, and the creation of the perfect sex doll are just some of the disturbing plot points. Based on a scandalous novel JINRUIGAKU NYUMON (Introduction to Anthropology) by Akiyuki Nozaka, the film is even lensed in a voyeuristic style, with shots through windows and cracks in open doors. Predating BOOGIE NIGHTS by several decades, THE PORNOGRAPHERS boldly investigates the relationship between sexual desire and one bizarre family, which includes a father believed to be reincarnated as a carp. The film is the first Imamura made after establishing his independent production company, Imamura Productions, in 1966.
Keywords:
Product Info
- Sales Rank: 60,113
- UPC: 037429178027
- Shipping Weight: 0.19/lbs (approx)
- International Shipping: 1 item