The Pornographers

The Pornographers

Infobox Film
name = The Pornographers


caption = Theatrical poster to "The Pornographers" (1966)
director = Shohei Imamura
producer = Jiro Romado
writer = Original Novel: Akiyuki Nosaka Screenwriters: Shohei Imamura Koji Numata
starring = Shoichi Ozawa Sumiko Sakamoto Masaomi Kondo Keiko Sagowa
music = Toshiro Mayuzumi Toshiro Kusunoki
cinematography = Shinsaku Himeda
editing = Matsuo Tanji
distributor =
released = flagicon|Japan March 12, 1966 flagicon|USA August 1966
runtime = 128 min.
country = Japan
language = Japanese
budget =
preceded_by =
followed_by =
website =
amg_id = 1:38743
imdb_id = 0060560

"The Pornographers" is a 1966 Japanese film directed by Shohei Imamura and based on a novel of the same name by Akiyuki Nosaka. Its original Japanese title is "Erogotoshitachi yori Jinruigaku nyumon" (エロ事師たちより　人類学入門), which means 'An Introduction to Anthropology through The Pornographers'. It tells the story of porn filmmaker Mr. Ogata, whose business is under threat by thieves, the government, and his own family.

The film is a dark comic satire, depicting the underbelly of the Japanese post-war economic miracle, in this case pornographers and small-time gangsters in Osaka. It has been called Imamura's best-known film outside of Japan. [ cite book|author= Sklar, Robert|year=2002|title=Film: An International History of the Medium, Second edition|publisher=Harry N. Abrams|location=New York|id=ISBN 0-13-034049-9, p.365. ]

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*imdb title|id=0060560|title=The Pornographers
* [http://www.criterion.com/asp/release.asp?id=207&eid=320&section=essay Criterion Collection essay by J. Hoberman]
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