The Insect Woman

  • Drama
11/16/1963
123
NR

She lives by instinct with no sense of right or wrong.

A woman, Tome, is born to a lower class family in Japan in 1918. The title refers to an insect, repeating its mistakes, as in an infinite circle. Imamura, with this metaphor, introduces the life of Tome, who keeps trying to change her poor life.

Director:
Shōhei Imamura
Writers:
Shōhei Imamura
Keiji Hasebe
  • adultery
  • japan
  • prostitute
  • buddhism
  • parent child relationship
  • confession
  • brothel
  • pregnancy
  • greed
  • commune
  • cynicism
  • family relationships
  • poverty
  • prostitution
  • lust
  • freeze frame
  • incest
  • starvation
  • prostitution ring
  • 1920s
  • 1940s
  • 1950s
  • 1960s
  • 1910s
  • 1930s
  • serf
  • spanning generations
  • breastfeeding
  • abusive stepfather
  • political allegory
  • taisho

Cast

  • Sachiko Hidari
    Tome Matsuki
  • Jitsuko Yoshimura
    Nobuko
  • Emiko Aizawa
    Rui
  • Masumi Harukawa
    Midori
  • Emiko Higashi
    Kane
  • Daizaburo Hirata
    Kamibayashi
  • Seizaburō Kawazu
    Karasawa
  • Teruko Kishi
    Rin
  • Tanie Kitabayashi
    Madam
  • Kazuo Kitamura
    Chuji
  • Masakazu Kuwayama
    Owagawa En's Lover
  • Hiroyuki Nagato
    Matsunami
  • Shoichi Ozawa
    Ken
  • Sumie Sasaki
    En
  • Taiji Tonoyama
    Foreman
  • Asao Koike
    Sawakichi

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