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Filmmaker · Japan

Shohei Imamura

Died in 2006

Shohei Imamura was born on 15 September 1926 in Tokyo, the son of a doctor. After studies at Waseda University, he joined Shōchiku in 1951, where he was an assistant to one of the studio's masters, then moved in 1954 to Nikkatsu, which entrusted him with his first film in 1958. He founded his own production company in 1965 and turned to documentary at the end of the sixties. Founder in 1975 of a film school in Yokohama, twice winner of the Palme d'Or, in 1983 and 1997, he died of cancer in Tokyo on 30 May 2006.

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