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Shichirô Fukazawa

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    THE BALLAD OF NARAYAMA

    SHÔHEI IMAMURA Japan, 1983

    The director’s first Palme d’Or-winner, this film epitomizes the transgressive qualities that make Shōhei Imamura one of Japan’s greatest directors. Sex, death, squalor and horror perpetually intertwine in this year-spanning portrait of instinct, survival and private dignity in brutal circumstances.

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