
Premiere
12
Mar1966
About
Synopsis
The Pornographers (1966) is available to watch online on iFILM — a Japanese comedy-drama directed by Shohei Imamura, adapted from Akiyuki Nosaka's novel.
Subu runs a one-man pornography operation in postwar Osaka: amateur performers, secondhand cameras, yakuza and police to dodge. He sees no shame in it — his trade serves a sexually repressed society. He lives with his landlady Haru, who is convinced that her late husband reincarnated as the carp in the living-room tank. The fish seems to disapprove.
Imamura uses Subu's world not for shock value but as a dissection of postwar Japan — its buried desires, its layered hypocrisies, its peculiar domestic arrangements. Stream The Pornographers online on iFILM.
Cast
Starring

Shoichi Ozawa
Yoshimoto 'Subu' Ogata
Sumiko Sakamoto
Haru Masuda
Keiko Sagawa
Keiko Matsuda

Masaomi Kondo
Koichi Matsuda

Haruo Tanaka
Banteki

Ganjirō Nakamura II
Elderly Executive

Chōchō Miyako
Brothel Madame

Kō Nishimura
Detective Sanada

Ichirō Sugai
Shinun Ogata
Shinichi Nakano
Kabo

Kazuo Kitamura
Doctor

Asao Uchida
Furukawa

Taiji Tonoyama
Father

Jun Hamamura
Company Manager

Kin Sugai
Teacher Oda
Sayoko Kinoshita
Second-hand Bookstore Owner

Kayako Sono
Wife
Shōzō Fukuyama
Prayer
Shuntaro Tamamura
Nishioka

Hyōe Enoki
Middle-aged Man

Shōhei Imamura
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