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 243,110 page views. His biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 36 in 2019). Shohei Imamura is the 154th most popular film director (up from 196th in 2019), the 165th most popular biography from Japan (up from 193rd in 2019) and the 7th 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)

  • 62.51

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 38

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.48

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.95

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Shohei Imamuras by language

Over the past year Shohei Imamura has had the most page views in the with 73,342 views, followed by English (11,721), and Chinese (11,578). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Malagasy (70.57%), Turkish (42.11%), and Dutch (41.25%)

Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Shohei Imamura ranks 154 out of 2,041. Before him are Frances Marion, Louis Malle, Ettore Scola, Victor Sjöström, Ed Wood, and Alexander Dovzhenko. After him are Otto Preminger, Roland Emmerich, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Jesús Franco, Peter Greenaway, and Kim Ki-duk.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, Shohei Imamura ranks 59. Before him are Harry Dean Stanton, Ingeborg Bachmann, George Martin, Henry Way Kendall, Tony Bennett, and Maria Schell. After him are Masatoshi Koshiba, Vasily Arkhipov, Sergio Corbucci, Hilary Putnam, Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, and Margot Frank. Among people deceased in 2006, Shohei Imamura ranks 41. Before him are Clifford Geertz, Alexander Litvinenko, Markus Wolf, Bülent Ecevit, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, and John Kenneth Galbraith. After him are Zoia Ceaușescu, Telmo Zarra, P. W. Botha, Nam June Paik, Claude Jade, and Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Shohei Imamura ranks 165 out of 6,245. Before him are Ken Watanabe (1959), Shoko Asahara (1955), Osamu Yamaji (1929), Nobusuke Kishi (1896), Emperor Ōjin (210), and Antonio Inoki (1943). After him are Emperor Kaika (-208), Emperor Tenmu (631), Masatoshi Koshiba (1926), Junichiro Koizumi (1942), Emperor Suinin (-69), and Yasuhiro Nakasone (1918).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Japan

Among film directors born in Japan, Shohei Imamura ranks 7. Before him are Hayao Miyazaki (1941), Akira Kurosawa (1910), Yasujirō Ozu (1903), Isao Takahata (1935), Takeshi Kitano (1947), and Kenji Mizoguchi (1898). After him are Masaki Kobayashi (1916), Nagisa Oshima (1932), Hirokazu Kore-eda (1962), Hideaki Anno (1960), Franklin J. Schaffner (1920), and Makoto Shinkai (1973).

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Filmography

Early Summer
Director
A 28-year-old single woman is pressured to marry.
Oct 3o 19517.8 / 10
Tokyo Story
Director
The elderly Shukishi and his wife, Tomi, take the long journey from their small seaside village to visit their adult children in Tokyo. Their elder son, Koichi, a doctor, and their daughter, Shige, a hairdresser, don't have much time to spend with their aged parents, and so it falls to Noriko, the widow of their younger son who was killed in the war, to keep her in-laws company.
Nov 3o 19538.18 / 10
The Ballad of Narayama
Director
In a small village in a valley everyone who reaches the age of 70 must leave the village and go to a certain mountain top to die. If anyone should refuse they would disgrace their family. Old Orin is 69. This winter it is her turn to go to the mountain. But first she must make sure that her eldest son Tatsuhei finds a wife.
Apr 29o 19837.418 / 10