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Shôhei Imamura
Birthday
1926-09-15Place of Birth
Tokyo, Tokyo Prefecture, JapanBiography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Shōhei Imamura (Tokyo, 15 September 1926 – 30 May 2006) was a Japanese film director. Imamura was the first Japanese director to win two Palme d'Or awards, but was never Oscar nominated for any category. His eldest son Daisuke Tengan is also a script writer and film director, and worked on the screenplays to Imamura's films The Eel (1997), Dr. Akagi (1998), Warm Water Under a Red Bridge (2001) and 11'9"01 September 11 (2002). Description above from the Wikipedia article Shōhei Imamura, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia. 
