R.I.P. Shohei Imamura

One of my favorite film directors, Shohei Imamura, died of cancer on Tuesday. The New York Times is currently running a brief overview of his life and work.

If you've never seen an Imamura film, I highly recommend The Pornographers and his 1983 remake of The Ballad of Narayama, as well as two more recent films, The Eel and Warm Water Under a Red Bridge (both of which star one of my favorite actors, Koji Yakusho). In honor of Imamura and his incredibly weird and wonderful films, I'll pull together some old reviews over the next week or so.