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International scholar Kenzo Ishikawa is calling for environmental protection and ecology awareness on a stage. However, the audience is small and the reaction is not good but one man called Haruo was listening enthusiastically. They both meet again at a bar where Ishikawa continues his ecology speech. Haruo wanted to hear more from Ishikawa and visited his house where they embrace after disposing of clothes they deemed harmful for the environment. To further protect the environment Haruo wants to blow up a disposible chopsticks factory and he prepares to make a bomb but Ishikawa doesn't agree with him.
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Released
Original Language
JA
Kenzo Ishikawa, scholar
Subu makes pornographic films. He sees nothing wrong with it. They are an aid to a repressed society, and he uses the money to support his landlady, Haru, and her family. From time to time, Haru shares her bed with Subu, though she believes her dead husband, reincarnated as a carp, disapproves. Director Shohei Imamura has always delighted in the kinky exploits of lowlifes, and in this 1966 classic, he finds subversive humor in the bizarre dynamics of Haru, her Oedipal son, and her daughter, the true object of her pornographer-boyfriend’s obsession. Imamura’s comic treatment of such taboos as voyeurism and incest sparked controversy when the film was released, but The Pornographers has outlasted its critics, and now seems frankly ahead of its time.
