The Insect Woman
Film1963123 min7.2/10 on TMDB
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Directed by Shōhei Imamura
She lives by instinct with no sense of right or wrong.
The story
A woman, Tome, is born to a lower class family in Japan in 1918. The title refers to an insect, repeating its mistakes, as in an infinite circle. Imamura, with this metaphor, introduces the life of Tome, who keeps trying to change her poor life.
Cast & crew
Sachiko HidariTome Matsuki
Jitsuko YoshimuraNobuko
Shoichi Ozawa
Hiroyuki NagatoMatsunami
Kayoko HonooMiyako
Masumi HarukawaMidori
Daizaburo HirataKamibayashi
Seizaburō KawazuKarasawa
Teruko KishiRin
Tanie KitabayashiMadamExplore the crew
- Director
- Shōhei Imamura
- Writer
- Shōhei Imamura
- Writer
- Keiji Hasebe
- Producer
- Kano Otsuka
- Producer
- Jirô Tomoda
- Original Music Composer
- Toshirō Mayuzumi
- Editor
- Mutsuo Tanji
- Director of Photography
- Shinsaku Himeda