The Insect Woman

Imamura has an unmistakable documentary style, that seems to be a sort of hit or miss principle. He was a part of the new reaction against the traditional and conformist structure of the contemporary film creators, much like Truffaut and others were in Europe. He honed his love of the documentary style from quite early on and more or less stuck to it ever since. Now at this rather early point it has not been fine tu…