Shohei Imamura: The Free Thinker

Top 5 Billed Cast

Shōhei Imamura
今村昌平

Himself

Kazuo Kitamura
北村和夫

Himself

Catherine Cadou
Catherine Cadou

Herself

Kiyoko Ishiwata
Kiyoko Ishiwata

Herself

Taeko Nakahayashi
Taeko Nakahayashi

Herself

Loading Trailer Videos...
  • HomePage

  • Overview

    Documentary about Japanese film director Shohei Imamura.

  • Release Date

    1995-04-12

  • Average

    7

  • Rating:

    3.5 starts
  • Tagline

  • Genres

  • Languages:

    日本語Français
  • Keywords

Similar Movies

Never-Ending Man: Hayao Miyazaki
74%

Never-Ending Man: Hayao Miyazaki(ja)

2017-11-14

A look at legendary Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki following his retirement in 2013.

Words From Home
100%

Words From Home(pt)

2025-04-08

WORDS FROM HOME is a poetic documentary that explores the kinds of affection and identity in the portuguese language spoken in Brazil. Through migrants' stories and their reflections, the movie reveals how expressions, accents and memories form emotional and cultural bonds, showing how speaking connects us, differentiates us and, above all, brings us closer together.

Guy Martin: The World's Fastest Electric Car?
73%

Guy Martin: The World's Fastest Electric Car?(en)

2021-08-09

Join self confessed petrol-head Guy Martin as he learns about the alternative to the internal combustion engine, Electric. In this TV special, Guy learns about the advantages of electric transport and the different varieties that exist from bicycles, cars and vans up to buses. Guy also learns some of the disadvantages from range anxiety and with the help of the Leicestershire Fire Brigade, how to deal with a fire. The ultimate aim is to produce a record breaking electrified retro road car that is suitable for the Drag strip, with Guy behind the steering wheel.

Return
90%

Return(es)

2023-02-10

Documentary about emigration between the Canary Islands and Cuba during the late 19th century and early 20th century.

20 years after Caméra Café
65%

20 years after Caméra Café(fr)

2023-01-24

To celebrate the release of a new movie for their 20th anniversary, this documentary offers some behind-the-scenes footages.

Jim Carrey: America Unmasked
74%

Jim Carrey: America Unmasked(fr)

2021-10-14

Composed of numerous archives and film clips, this documentary is the story of a transgressive actor, a pirate who came to crack America's too perfect mask to reveal its most infantile and moronic face, right in the heart of the Hollywood system.

Six Unkind Silences
0%

Six Unkind Silences(en)

2025-03-01

A Landscape documentary about the silent voids the living inhabit after everyone they love has gone.

Näin tehtiin Poissa
0%

Näin tehtiin Poissa(fi)

2020-12-14

Documentary film about the making of Arttu Haglund's feature film Gone.

Tour De Force
0%

Tour De Force(en)

2024-04-03

A mixed media mini-doc on the triumphs and pains of creating a first film. High expectations and unexpected losses can kill your darlings.

About Max
80%

About Max(en)

2019-11-19

The intimate and passionate portrait of the late Max Croci in a documentary that recalls the human and cultural depth with the testimonies of friends and colleagues.

Thelma & Louise: Born to Live
85%

Thelma & Louise: Born to Live(fr)

2025-04-05

The story was born from the pen of debutante Callie Khouri: Thelma, married to a macho man, and Louise, an independent waitress, go on a girls' getaway that turns into a runaway when the latter, during a stopover in a bar, shoots a man who was trying to rape her friend. But at the dawn of the 1990s, screens were dominated by testosterone-fueled opuses, and Hollywood studios were reluctant to entrust the steering wheel to a female duo. Seduced by the script, forwarded by his associate Mimi Polk, Ridley Scott agreed to produce the film and decided, against all odds, to direct it himself. Under the British director's watch, the two accidental outlaws, fabulously portrayed by Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis, flee across the vastness of the Far West on an emancipatory epic that sees them defy male oppression and reveal themselves to themselves.

Mayor of Lowell
0%

Mayor of Lowell(en)

2025-03-21

This short documentary chronicles the culture and arts of Cambodian Americans and the Lowell, MA community through the eyes of Sokhary Chau, the first Cambodian American Mayor in the United States. Chau immigrated to the U.S. at seven years old to escape the Khmer Rouge genocide. Through this unique story that showcases the best of Lowell—immigrant success, assimilation, history, and the development of the arts—we see a man born into a war-torn country who comes to America to be a first-in-the-nation leader.

Guardians of the Galapagos
72%

Guardians of the Galapagos(en)

2025-04-21

Go behind the scenes with the crew of Sea Lions of the Galapagos to showcase not just the production of a film, but the world that inspired it.

Nothing As It Seems: The Films of Nicolas Roeg
0%

Nothing As It Seems: The Films of Nicolas Roeg(en)

1982-01-01

Documentary on Nicolas Roeg

Tribute to Leopoldo Mendez
80%

Tribute to Leopoldo Mendez(es)

1970-01-01

Tribute to Leopoldo Méndez, a prominent Mexican artist, considered the most important printmaker in Contemporary Mexico

Collecting Time
0%

Collecting Time(el)

2024-05-27

Dimitris Pistiolas, a retired employee for the Greek Post Office, is the owner of the largest cinema museum in the world. In two tiny venues in Athens lies his renowned by the Guinness World Records collection. Now, 90 years old, Dimitris recounts his past, hidden in his machines, hoping that his memories are not going to be lost forever.

Kneidler
0%

Kneidler(fr)

2018-02-21

Anima Mea
100%

Anima Mea(en)

2022-09-30

When Mariana connects the Military Dictatorship's violent legacy as the structure behind Brazilian families, she embarks on an introspective journey to deconstruct her family life growing up in Brazil.

The Crazy Life
64%

The Crazy Life(es)

2008-09-20

A documentary about the rival gangs Mara 18 and Mara Salvatrucha, originating in Los Angeles but terrorizing El Salvador. It explores their origins as possible founding myths of organized crime in a globalized world.

What's Your Art?
0%

What's Your Art?(en)

2017-09-28

A 64 year old cardboard collecting grandmother and a Brazilian bodybuilder reveal the identity of Macau through the pointillist minutiae of their life experience, emotional strength, and driving passions.

Recommendations Movies

Loro 1
68%

Loro 1(it)

2018-04-24

"Loro", in two parts, is a period movie that chronicles, as a fiction story, events likely happened in Italy (or even made up) between 2006 and 2010. "Loro" wants to suggest in portraits and glimps, through a composite constellation of characters, a moment in history, now definitively ended, which can be described in a very summary picture of the events as amoral, decadent but extraordinarily alive. Additionally, "Loro" wishes to tell the story of some Italians, fresh and ancient people at the same time: souls from a modern imaginary Purgatory who, moved by heterogeneous intents like ambition, admiration, affection, curiosity, personal interests, establish to try and orbit around the walking Paradise that is the man named Silvio Berlusconi.

Swimming in the Sea
54%

Swimming in the Sea(fr)

1895-12-28

Several little boys run along a pier, then jump into the ocean.

Main Krishna Hoon
60%

Main Krishna Hoon(hi)

2013-01-25

In answer to an orphan boy's prayers, the divine Lord Krishna comes to Earth, befriends the boy, and helps him find a loving family.

The Front Runner
59%

The Front Runner(en)

2018-11-06

Gary Hart, former Senator of Colorado, becomes the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1987. Hart's intelligence, charisma and idealism makes him popular with young voters, leaving him with a seemingly clear path to the White House. All that comes crashing down when allegations of an extramarital affair surface in the media, forcing the candidate to address a scandal that threatens to derail his campaign and personal life.

The Wild Soccer Bunch 2
58%

The Wild Soccer Bunch 2(de)

2005-02-17

An unsupervised junior soccer team loses its ace player to the leader of a rival gang. Since only an entire team can win, they must have her back to be able to win the game against the national team. The existence of The Wild Soccer Bunch is at stake ...

Tomie: Rebirth
72%

Tomie: Rebirth(ja)

2001-03-24

Young art student Hideo paints an unnerving portrait of Tomie, who whispers that she loves him. Inexplicably, he reacts by stabbing her to death with a painting trowel. Two friends, Takumi and Shunichi, arrive on the scene and help him dispose of the body. To cheer him up, the boys take the unwitting murderer to the nearest bar for a party... but a mysterious girl named Tomie shows up, bearing a few odd physical resemblances to the dead girl in the ground.

King of the Doormen
77%

King of the Doormen(tr)

1977-05-01

Seyit, a resourceful doorman of a middle class apartment in Istanbul, finds himself in a struggle for power when the new superintendent decides to crack down on his slack attitude.

The Tale of King Crab
72%

The Tale of King Crab(it)

2021-12-02

Small town in Italy, end of the 19th century. Luciano, a drunk, doesn't fit in the town. Rebelion against authority and a forbidden love makes him to commit a crime accidentally. To pay for his crime, he is forced into exile on the most remote island in the world, Argentina’s Tierra del Fuego. The hunt for the shipwreck treasure hidden on the island becomes his opportunity for redemption.

I Can Quit Whenever I Want 3: Ad Honorem
74%

I Can Quit Whenever I Want 3: Ad Honorem(it)

2017-11-30

Has been an year since Pietro Zinni's gang got caught in the Sopox production laboratory and each of them locked up in different jails. From Regina Coeli jail, Pietro keep warning the authorities a fool syntetized nerve gas and he is ready to make a killing, but no one takes him seriously.

We
57%

We(en)

1974-11-07

In a world where communication has grown into big business, the lack of it between individuals is almost a paradox. We live in tight little compartments that are not easily penetrated. Individual differences are regarded with suspicion or scorn. This animated film parodies the human condition in a few quick, colourful sketches, amusingly, without words, yet leaving food for thought.

Sleeping with Other People
63%

Sleeping with Other People(en)

2015-06-26

Can two serial cheaters get a second chance at love? After a one-night stand in college, New Yorkers Lainey and Jake meet by chance twelve years later and discover they each have the same problem: because of their monogamy-challenged ways, neither can maintain a relationship. Determined to stay friends despite their mutual attraction, they make a pact to keep it platonic, a deal that proves easier said than done.

I Can Quit Whenever I Want 2: Masterclass
74%

I Can Quit Whenever I Want 2: Masterclass(it)

2017-02-02

Pietro Zinni is asked by the police to revive the old gang to create a task force that will stop the spread of smart drugs.

Momentum
57%

Momentum(en)

2015-10-15

When Alex, an infiltration expert with a secret past, accidentally reveals her identity during what should have been a routine heist, she quickly finds herself mixed up in a government conspiracy and entangled in a deadly game of cat-and-mouse with a master assassin and his team of killers. Armed with her own set of lethal skills, Alex looks to exact revenge for her murdered friends while uncovering the truth.

Re-Animated
64%

Re-Animated(en)

2006-12-07

Jimmy is the kid everybody ignores and uses. One day, he gets into a freak accident. The only way for him to survive is a brain transplant. He gets the brain of Milt Appleday, a famous cartoon creator. And when he wakes up, he can see cartoons!

Android Re-Enactment
71%

Android Re-Enactment(en)

2011-08-28

Ermus Daglek, retired Empathtek engineer, commandeers a defunct factory where he creates androids based on persons from his past and recreates a dinner party where he lost the love of his life - until they malfunction and escape.

Don't Be Bad
78%

Don't Be Bad(it)

2015-09-08

A story set in the 90s and in the outskirts of Rome to Ostia. A world where money, luxury cars, night clubs, cocaine and synthetic drugs are easy to run. A world in which Vittorio and Cesare, in their early twenties, act in search of their success.

Behzat Ç.: Ankara Is on Fire
65%

Behzat Ç.: Ankara Is on Fire(tr)

2013-11-01

In the absence of Behzat Ç., a superintendent named Himmet gets replaced as the president of the murder Bureau. When the murder of minister of Interior makes a big impact, Himmet decides to take advantage of it and he makes his team help the fight against terrorism bureau.

Murder at the Gallop
71%

Murder at the Gallop(en)

1963-05-09

Miss Marple and Mr. Stringer are witnesses to the death by heart attack of elderly, rich Mr. Enderby. Yet they have their doubts about what happened. The police don't believe them, thus leading Miss Marple to yet again investigate by herself.

Read Lips
45%

Read Lips(cn)

1980-09-18

Frankie Chan plays a movie dubber who can read lips.