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Film · 1963
The Insect Woman
2h 3mNRDirected by Shōhei Imamura
- Drama
She lives by instinct with no sense of right or wrong.
A woman, Tome, is born to a lower class family in Japan in 1918. The title refers to an insect, repeating its mistakes, as in an infinite circle. Imamura, with this metaphor, introduces the life of Tome, who keeps trying to change her poor life.
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Cast
Sachiko HidariTome Matsuki
Jitsuko YoshimuraNobuko
Shoichi OzawaKen
Hiroyuki NagatoMatsunami
Kayoko HonooMiyako
Masumi HarukawaMidori- Emiko AizawaRui
- Emiko HigashiKane
Daizaburo HirataKamibayashi
Seizaburō KawazuKarasawa
Teruko KishiRin
Tanie KitabayashiMadam
Details
- Director
- Shōhei Imamura
- Writer
- Shōhei Imamura, Keiji Hasebe
- Music
- Toshirō Mayuzumi
- Cinematography
- Shinsaku Himeda
- Editor
- Mutsuo Tanji
- Producer
- Kano Otsuka, Jirô Tomoda
- Release
- November 16, 1963
- Runtime
- 2h 3m
- Rated
- NR
- Language
- Japanese
- Studio
- Nikkatsu Corporation
- TMDB score
- 7.2 / 10 from 80 votes
Where to watch
Stream
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