Jinruigaku nyumon: Erogotoshitachi yori (1966)

Director:

Shohei Imamura

Writers:

Shohei Imamura (writer)
Akiyuki Nosaka (novel)

Release Date:

agosto 1966 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Drama

Plot:

Mr. Ogata lives a complicated life: he's is a pornographer making two skin flicks per day and trying...

Plot Keywords:

1960s | Pornography | Sexual Perversion | Japan | Asylum

Awards:

3 wins

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Excellent Fellini-esque Film

Cast

Shoichi Ozawa	...	Yoshimoto 'Sub' Ogata
Sumiko Sakamoto	...	Haru Masuda
Masaomi Kondo	...	Koichi
Keiko Sagawa	...	Keiko
Ganjiro Nakamura	...	Elderly Client
Chocho Miyako
Haruo Tanaka
Shinichi Nakano
Kô Nishimura
Ichirô Sugai

También conocida como:

The Amorists (USA)
The Pornographer (UK)
The Pornographers (USA) (reissue title)
The Pornographers: Introduction to Anthropology (USA) (complete title)

Duración:

128 min | USA:120 min

País:

Japan

Idioma:

Japanese

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sonido:

Mono

Company:

Imamura Productions

Trivialidades:

An English-subtitled print included among the opening credits the phrase, approximately, "presented by Phyllis and Eberhardt Kronhausen"--the well-known sexologists.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in The Killing Floor (2007)

Excellent Fellini-esque Film

The Pornographers is an excellent movie that has something important to say about base human sex acts. The movie also deals with all different types of intra-familial relationships: husbands and wives, daughters and parents, widows and their former husbands reincarnated as household pets. The plot confronts a socio-political setting where "erotic films" as they are called are banned, but the great demand for them drives the pornographers who are otherwise destitute with families to support. The pornographers think they have nothing to lose, but realize just how much they do stand to lose. It should be noted that there is no nudity or adult content depicted. The movie is brilliantly filmed with beautiful symbols in the pictures representing the character's inner emotions. As events grow worse and worse the images grow darker and stranger. This is an excellent movie for the Fellini-esque audience.