As far as I know, Shôchiku new wave "officially" included the three directors you mentioned, as well as Tamura Tsutomu, Takahashi Osamu, Morikawa Eitarô (who provided the Kyoto-based, jidai geki-esque version of this so-called new-wave), and maybe Saitô Masao... <br>
There's an interesting article ("Shôchiku Ofuna no jidai") Satô Tadao wrote around 1973 (in <i>Sekai no eiga sakka</i>), that could stand as an objective testimony of what was the "official version" of Shôchiku Nouvelle Vague... And if one relies on that text, Shôchiku officials actually seem to have stopped this Nouvelle Vague by 1961, for economical reasons... That is to say that strictly speaking, Hani's film would not be part of it... But how far is this point of view to be acknowledged ? That's something I wouldn't know...<br>
<br>Mathieu Capel<br>Paris<br><br><br>