The Pornographers
1966 · 128 MIN · IMDB 7.2 · 2,616 VOTES · DIR. Shōhei Imamura
Overview
Subu makes pornographic films. He sees nothing wrong with it. They are an aid to a repressed society, and he uses the money to support his landlady, Haru, and her family. From time to time, Haru shares her bed with Subu, though she believes her dead husband, reincarnated as a carp, disapproves. Director Shohei Imamura has always delighted in the kinky exploits of lowlifes, and in this 1966 classic, he finds subversive humor in the bizarre dynamics of Haru, her Oedipal son, and her daughter, the true object of her pornographer-boyfriend’s obsession. Imamura’s comic treatment of such taboos as voyeurism and incest sparked controversy when the film was released, but The Pornographers has outlasted its critics, and now seems frankly ahead of its time.
Dialogue Timeline — 1,509 lines
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00:00:21 THE NI KKATSU CORPORATION
00:05:13 Come on, let go.
00:10:33 But...
00:15:03 But it was hard setting it up.
00:19:19 I can't take it.
00:24:24 He's back now.
00:29:28 This soul worries about you so much that it can't go to heaven to rest.
00:33:55 Only Ogata made lance corporal.
00:40:55 Keiko's uniform fits her well.
00:45:36 Every father feels the same way when his daughter reaches that age.
00:50:48 Read something good for you, like biographies and science books.
00:56:19 How much?
01:03:04 You didn't have to do that.
01:07:39 It's odd, but it's not like it's never happened before.
01:13:16 Damn!
01:17:59 My night job.
01:22:49 That way.
01:29:27 but they enrolled 500 students.
01:33:37 Do you think so?
01:43:36 Please step forward to make your offering.
01:51:35 That's why I don't like women.
01:55:42 I'll come by later.
01:59:58 Take this million yen, please.
30:00:00 and left this in the safe.