Obit: Imamura Shohei

[Brian Ruh]

--- Markus Nornes <amnornes at umich.edu> wrote:
>
> From the NYT:
> 
> But Mr. Imamura also found time during this period to sponsor the  
> work of Takashi Miike, whose notoriously violent, overtly sadistic  
> films took Mr. Imamura's assumptions about humanity to new extremes. 

I don't remember ever hearing this. I knew that Miike worked on
Imamura's "Black Rain," but hadn't heard that Miike was "sponsored" by
Imamura in any way. Can anyone shed more light on this connection?

== Brian

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