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FILM DIRECTOR

Shohei Imamura

1926 - 2006

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Shōhei Imamura (今村 昌平, Imamura Shōhei, 15 September 1926 – 30 May 2006) was a Japanese film director. His main interest as a filmmaker lay in the depiction of the lower strata of Japanese society. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Shohei Imamura has received more than 243,964 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Shohei Imamura is the 196th most popular film director (down from 181st in 2019), the 194th most popular biography from Japan (down from 184th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Japanese Film Director.

Shohei Imamura is most famous for his films, such as The Insect Woman, Pigs and Battleships, and The Eel.

Memorability Metrics

  • 240k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 60.74

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 36

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.03

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.98

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Shohei Imamura ranks 196 out of 1,581. Before him are Nicholas Ray, Vsevolod Pudovkin, Jerzy Skolimowski, Michael Moore, Lewis Milestone, and Richard Donner. After him are Jean Negulesco, Alan J. Pakula, Otto Preminger, Chris Columbus, Lev Kuleshov, and Max Ophüls.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, Shohei Imamura ranks 69. Before him are John Fowles, Cayetana Fitz-James Stuart, 18th Duchess of Alba, Richard Matheson, George Habash, Joan Sutherland, and César Pelli. After him are Kim Jae-gyu, Gyula Grosics, Henry Way Kendall, Jean-Pierre Serre, Masatoshi Koshiba, and Alan Greenspan. Among people deceased in 2006, Shohei Imamura ranks 47. Before him are Melvin Schwartz, Alida Valli, Telmo Zarra, P. W. Botha, Robert Bruce Merrifield, and Zoia Ceaușescu. After him are Raymond Davis Jr., Mariska Veres, Romano Mussolini, Shamil Basayev, Claude Jade, and Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Shohei Imamura ranks 194 out of 6,048. Before him are Emperor Kōtoku (596), Jiroemon Kimura (1897), Emperor Kenzō (450), Shoko Asahara (1955), Emperor Seimu (83), and Masahito, Prince Hitachi (1935). After him are Tokugawa Tsunayoshi (1646), Yohji Yamamoto (1943), Kawakami Gensai (1834), D. T. Suzuki (1870), Masao Nozawa (null), and Katsura Tarō (1848).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Japan

Among film directors born in Japan, Shohei Imamura ranks 9. Before him are Takeshi Kitano (1947), Isao Takahata (1935), Yasujirō Ozu (1903), Kenji Mizoguchi (1898), Nagisa Oshima (1932), and Masaki Kobayashi (1916). After him are Hideaki Anno (1960), Franklin J. Schaffner (1920), Ishirō Honda (1911), Mikio Naruse (1905), Satoshi Kon (1963), and Kinji Fukasaku (1930).

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Filmography

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