Shohei Imamura: The Free Thinker

00:00:09 CINEMA OF OUR TIME

00:04:12 How did you -

00:07:23 I don't know about the future

00:09:42 - Nothing odd about it. - Actually, you're right.

00:12:34 Like you said, real actors have their personas already.

00:14:50 There's something missing in me

00:17:06 We can't go on like this.

00:20:15 Because we were working on the second floor of a building.

00:22:39 "A girl in school uniform is studying. A doctor comes in and rapes her.

00:25:31 He must have been an aspiring yakuza who got hired.

00:27:46 She was a bit older.

00:30:06 You discover more.

00:32:19 At Tsukiji Little Theater.

00:34:51 that American soldiers were all well-built, or that they all had pointy noses.

00:37:45 The novelist said I was very optimistic.

00:40:45 Especially if you write the script. It's your big responsibility.

00:43:12 And they want to have presence on the screen.

00:45:18 They're both fictions.

00:46:58 All you think about is money.

00:49:05 But I'm doubtful about the effect of their way of expressing themselves.

00:51:31 That's for me to say.

00:53:48 Aren't they so disposable in a society

00:57:05 and just dump their bodies in a mass grave here.

01:09:01 the time when the Meiji era ended