Bushido: The Cruel Code of the Samurai
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Tadashi Imai (今井正, Imai Tadashi, January 8, 1912 – November 22, 1991) was a Japanese film director known for social realist filmmaking informed by a left-wing perspective. His most noted films include An Inlet of Muddy Water (1953) and Bushido, Samurai Saga (1963).
Known for his social realist films, the Japanese director Tadashi Imai was mostly interested in depicting the tragedies of human life. Often described as 'nakanai realism', or 'a realism without tears', Imai's films show the hard struggles of the poor.
- January 1, 1
- Tokyo, Japan
- January 1, 1
- Tokyo, Japan
May 11, 2018 · Tadashi Imai (1912-1991) was one of Japan's most prolific and controversial 20th-century film directors. He infused his staunch left-wing political views into almost all his films, sometimes succeeding in combining masterful art with social criticism, but at other times crafting didactic films that succeeded only as propaganda.
Marlborough Concert Series. Polish romantic music by Oginski, Paderewski, Chopin. Tadashi Imai - pianist, piano teacher.
Known for his social realist films, the Japanese director Tadashi Imai was mostly interested in depicting the tragedies of human life. Often described as 'nakanai realism', or 'a realism without tears', Imai's films show the hard struggles of the poor.
- January 8, 1912
- November 22, 1991
Tadashi IMAI (January 8, 1912 - November 22, 1991) was a film director in Japan during the Showa period. Having mainly created social films, he was a great filmmaker representing leftist humanism in Japanese cinema after World War II.
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Jul 4, 2022 · Having premiered at Cannes and won many Japanese awards, Inlet of Muddy Waters is the brilliant adaptation by Tadashi Imai, a noted social realist filmmaker, of three stories by Ichiyo Higuchi (1872–1896), Japan’s first professional female writer and a literary prodigy who nonetheless died in poverty at age 24.
