Directed by:
Shôhei ImamuraCinematography:
Shinsaku HimedaComposer:
Toshirô MayuzumiCast:
Sachiko Hidari, Jitsuko Yoshimura, Masumi Harukawa, Sumie Sasaki, Kazuo Kitamura, Shôichi Ozawa, 北林谷栄, 小池朝雄, Teruko Kishi, Shoichi Kuwayama, Shigeru Tsuyuguchi (more)Plots(1)
Comparing his heroine, Tome Matsuki (played by Sachiko Hidari, who won the "Best Actress" award at the 1964 Berlin Film Festival for the role) to the restlessness and survival instincts of worker insects, the film is an unsparing study of working-class female life. Beginning with Tome s birth in 1918, it follows her through five decades of social change, several improvised careers, and male-inflicted cruelty. Elliptically plotted, brimming over with black humour and taboo material, and immaculately staged in crystalline Nikkatsu Scope, The Insect Woman is arguably Imamura's most radical and emphatic testament to female resilience. (Eureka Entertainment)
(more)Cast
Sachiko Hidari
Japan
Best movies:
Under the Flag of the Rising Sun (1972)
A Fugitive from the Past (1965)
Insect Woman (1963)
Jitsuko Yoshimura
Japan
Best movies:
Onibaba (1964)
Ošin (2013)
Dodes'ka-den (1970)
Masumi Harukawa
Japan
Best movies:
The Human Bullet (1968)
Zatoichi's Cane-sword (1967)
Intentions of Murder (1964)
Sumie Sasaki
Japan
Best movies:
Twenty-Four Eyes (1954)
Insect Woman (1963)
Tokyo Bordello (1987)
Kazuo Kitamura
Japan
Best movies:
Japan's Longest Day (1967)
The Man Who Stole the Sun (1979)
High and Low (1963)
Shôichi Ozawa
Japan
Best movies:
The Human Bullet (1968)
Silence Has No Wings (1966)
Revenge (1964)
北林谷栄
Japan
Best movies:
The Human Bullet (1968)
My Neighbour Totoro (1988)
The Burmese Harp (1956)
小池朝雄
Japan
Best movies:
Antarctica (1983)
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deathmatch in Hiroshima (1973)
The Geisha (1983)
Teruko Kishi
Japan
Best movies:
Insect Woman (1963)
Stray Dog (1949)
Violence at Noon (1966)
Shoichi Kuwayama
Japan
Best movies:
Insect Woman (1963)
Shigeru Tsuyuguchi
Japan
Best movies:
Insect Woman (1963)
Why Not? (1981)
Emiko Azuma
Japan
Best movies:
Insect Woman (1963)
Daisaburô Hirata
Best movies:
Insect Woman (1963)
Hiroyuki Nagato
Japan
Best movies:
Switching - Goodbye Me (2007)
Insect Woman (1963)
Stolen Desire (1958)
Taiji Tonoyama
Japan
Best movies:
Tokyo Pop (1988)
The Naked Island (1960)
The Castle of Sand (1974)
Hyôe Enoki
Japan
Best movies:
Shogun (1980) (series)
Insect Woman (1963)
Tomio Aoki
Best movies:
I Was Born, But... (1932)
Insect Woman (1963)
An Inn in Tokyo (1935)
Akira Kume
Japan
Best movies:
Insect Woman (1963)
Crusher Joe (1983)