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A Man Vanishes Directed by Shohei Imamura Produced by Shohei Imamura Written by Keiji Hasebe
Shohei ImamuraStarring Yoshie Hayakawa
Shohei Imamura
Shigeru TsuyuguchiMusic by Toshirô Mayuzumi Cinematography Kenji Ishiguro Editing by Matsuo Tanji Distributed by Art Theatre Guild (Japan) (theatrical), Nikkatsu Corporation (Japan) (theatrical), Toho International Company Inc. (USA) Release date(s) July 8, 1967 Running time 130 min. Language Japanese A Man Vanishes (人間蒸発 Ningen Johatsu) is a 1967 Japanese film by director Shohei Imamura. A Region 2 DVD release in the Masters of Cinema series is scheduled for October 2011.
Plot
On the face of it, a documentary about an ordinary man who—like many Japanese every year—disappears without trace, leaving his job and fiancee behind, Imamura takes the narrative in unexpected directions, causing the viewer to question what is reality and what might be fiction.
See also
External links
- Ningen Johatsu at the Internet Movie Database
- "人間蒸発 (Ningen Johatsu)" (in Japanese). Japanese Movie Database. http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/1967/cq001880.htm. Retrieved 2007-07-17.
Films directed by Shōhei Imamura Stolen Desire (1958) · Nishi Ginza Station (1958) · Endless Desire (1958) · My Second Brother (1959) · Pigs and Battleships (1961) · The Insect Woman (1963) · Unholy Desire (1964) · The Pornographers (1966) · A Man Vanishes (1967) · The Profound Desire of the Gods (1968) · History of Postwar Japan as Told by a Bar Hostess (1970) · Karayuki-san, the Making of a Prostitute (1975) · Vengeance Is Mine (1979) · Eijanaika (1981) · The Ballad of Narayama (1983) · Zegen (1987) · Black Rain (1989) · The Eel (1998) · Dr. Akagi (1998) · Warm Water Under a Red Bridge (2001) · 11'9"01 September 11 (2002)
Categories:- Japanese-language films
- 1967 films
- Films directed by Shohei Imamura
- Japanese films
- Nikkatsu films
- 1960s Japanese film stubs
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