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Shohei Imamura, a winner last year, was this year out of competition.
ECONOMIST: The Cannes Film Festival
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Imamura Shohei's occasionally raw story of an ex-con gradually returning to the fold of humanity is a sharp look at contemporary Japan.
CNN: OT ONLY DID HONG
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If Imamura Shohei is the film-maker "obsessed with the lower part of the body and of society, " then Nakagami was his literary counterpart.
CNN: VIEWS FROM THE FRINGE