imamura's movie - a man vanishes

[Jasper Sharp]

I may be very wrong, but in the Imamura book recently published by the 
Cinematheque in Ontario it mentions that this film has never been released 
outside of Japan, though I'm not sure if this still applies, or if it ever 
applied to home video.
I too would absolutely love to see this film, as well as his later PROFOUND 
DESIRE OF THE GODS, but unfortunately the only country where Imamura's 
pre-Narayama films are available seems to be France, and I've not seen A MAN 
VANISHES listed there.
INTENTIONS OF MURDER, POSTWAR HISTORY OF JAPAN THROUGH A BAR HOSTESS, 
EIJANAIKA and a few others are all available from various French online 
retailers (fnac and amazon.fr), though these are all fairly old releases and 
not always in stock.

Jasper Sharp
Midnight Eye - japan_cult_cinema
www.midnighteye.com




>From: "Daniela Raddi" <daniraddi at libero.it>
>Reply-To: KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
>To: "mailing" <kinejapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu>
>Subject: imamura's movie
>Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 17:03:24 +0200
>
>Hi Kinemembers,
>i need a very big favour for my degree thesis.
>Does anyone know where i can find "A man vanishes" (Ningen Johatsu) by 
>Shohei Imamura?
>
>thanks
>
>Daniela
>

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