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- 2012
- Icarus Films
- 2 h 10 m
- 2012
- Icarus Films
- 2 h 10 m
Summary (Also known as "Ningen Johatsu") The American premiere of a 1967 documentary by one of Japan's most prominent directors Shohei Imamura which focuses on a seemingly ordinary office worker who was one of the 91,000 Japanese citizens who disappeared in that year. [New York Times]
Directed By: Shôhei Imamura
- 2012
- Icarus Films
- 2 h 10 m
- 2012
- Icarus Films
- 2 h 10 m
A Man Vanishes (1967)
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Summary (Also known as "Ningen Johatsu") The American premiere of a 1967 documentary by one of Japan's most prominent directors Shohei Imamura which focuses on a seemingly ordinary office worker who was one of the 91,000 Japanese citizens who disappeared in that year. [New York Times]
Directed By: Shôhei Imamura
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Universal Acclaim
Based on 5 Critic Reviews
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100% Positive
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0% Mixed
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Remains a primo example that cinema actually traffics in truthiness 24 frames per second.
Seemingly banal in its conceit, wildly startling in its execution, it tracks a film crew that, like a detective squad, investigates what became of an ordinary man.
Imamura's square-framed, black-and-white imagery, in all its various stylistic incarnations, proves as compelling through the docu's myriad detours as in any of his better-known psychological thrillers.
A groundbreaking, highly influential film, A Man Vanishes is a fiercely brilliant piece of work, but it's more intellectual challenge than pleasure.
The earthiest of Japanese New Wave directors, Shohei Imamura goes fascinatingly meta in this 1967 hybrid of investigative tract and ruminative experiment.
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Production Company
Imamura Productions,
Art Theatre Guild (ATG),
Nihon Eiga Shinsha
Release Date Nov 15, 2012
Duration 2 h 10 m
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Awards
Mainichi Film Concours
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
