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Released in 1963 and winning its lead actress Sachiko Hidari the prestigious Silver Bear award for best actress at the Berlin International Film Festival, The Insect Woman would prove to be one of the most acclaimed films of the Japanese Nuberu Bagu or New Wave. Having studied under Ozu, director Shohei Imamura fast developed his own inimitable style, stripping away the delicacy of a poignant probing of Japanese norms and values and centring his gaze instead upon the darker, seedier underbelly that arguably better depicts the true nature of all such societies.
This shift of attention and earthy approach to storytelling helped him gain a reputation throughout his career as an anthropological film-maker, and The Insect Woman shows this perfectly. The opening shots of a bug (I’m no Bill Oddie so I don't know what kind) crawling across the sand and dirt of the ground, making it to a gradient and slowly ascending, is not just a scene setter for all the...
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This shift of attention and earthy approach to storytelling helped him gain a reputation throughout his career as an anthropological film-maker, and The Insect Woman shows this perfectly. The opening shots of a bug (I’m no Bill Oddie so I don't know what kind) crawling across the sand and dirt of the ground, making it to a gradient and slowly ascending, is not just a scene setter for all the...
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