Giants and Toys

Jun 22, 1958

1h 35m

★ 6.9

Overview

Nishi is an advertising executive for a caramel company that is planning to launch a new product, in fierce competition with two other companies.

Genres

Comedy

Drama

Production Companies

Daiei Film

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Cast

Yousuke Nishi

Hiroshi Kawaguchi

Kyoko Shima

Hitomi Nozoe

Junji Harukawa

Yūnosuke Itō

Masami Kurahashi

Michiko Ono

Takakura Higashi

Kyū Sazanka

Kohei Yashiro

Kinzō Shin

Ryuji Goda

Hideo Takamatsu

Miyuki Fujimoto

Hisako Horigome

Natsuki

Mantarō Ushio

Osamu Abe

Yoshihiro Hamaguchi

Fuyusaki

Tatsuo Hanabu

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.

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