Why this filmmaker matters
Keisuke Imamura has 0 features photographed in the Nutevio catalogue.
Performer
Cinematographer in the Nutevio catalogue.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Keisuke Imamura has 0 features photographed in the Nutevio catalogue.
The recognisable elements are rewatchability, visual style, originality. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same eye, re-tuned for different registers. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is staged.
Imamura set terms other filmmakers now work against: the structures, the pacing and the refusal to explain. Awards bodies have often been slower than the work, which is usually the sign of a career built on choices rather than campaigns.
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Michihito Fujii
Director
7 shared titles · 18x2 Beyond Youthful Days

Genki Kawamura
Director
4 shared titles · Exit 8

Nana Mori
Actor
3 shared titles · April, Come She Will
Wakana Okamura
Executive Producer
3 shared titles · Exit 8

Nobutaka Yoda
Director
3 shared titles · Adam by Eve: A Live in Animation

Hiroya Shimizu
Actor
2 shared titles · Revolver Lily

Masami Nagasawa
Actor
2 shared titles · April, Come She Will

Go Ayano
Actor
2 shared titles · Hard Days

Hayato Isomura
Actor
2 shared titles · Hard Days

Shinobu Terajima
Actor
2 shared titles · The Parades

Isao Yukisada
Director
2 shared titles · Revolver Lily

Yoshihiro Furusawa
Producer
2 shared titles · Exit 8
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