The Pornographers

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 film-maker Mr. Subuyan Ogata, whose business is under threat from 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.^[1]

References

1. ^ Sklar, Robert (2002). Film: An International History of the Medium, Second edition. New York: Harry N. Abrams. ISBN 0-13-034049-9. , p.365.

External links

• The Pornographers at the Internet Movie Database
• The Pornographers at AllRovi
• Hoberman, J. The Pornographers Criterion Collection essay, 4 August 2003
• "エロ事師たちより　人類学入門 (Erogotoshitachi yori Jinruigaku nyumon)" (in Japanese). Japanese Movie Database. http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/1966/cp000940.htm. Retrieved 2007-07-17.