The Insect Woman (1963)
Nippon konchûki
She lives by instinct with no sense of right or wrong.
123 min
A woman, Tome, is born to a lower class family in Japan in 1918. The title refers to an insect, repeating its mistakes, as in an infinite circle. Imamura, with this metaphor, introduces the life of Tome, who keeps trying to change her poor life.
- Release date
- November 16, 1963
- Country of origin
- Japan
- Music
- Toshirō Mayuzumi
Where to watch
Subscription
Criterion Channel
Cast
- Sachiko Hidari as Tome Matsuki
- Jitsuko Yoshimura as Nobuko
- Shōichi Ozawa as Ken
- Hiroyuki Nagato as Matsunami
- Kayoko Honoo as Miyako
- Masumi Harukawa as Midori
- Emiko Aizawa as Rui
- Daisaburō Hirata as Kamibayashi
- Seizaburô Kawazu as Karasawa
- Teruko Kishi as Rin
- Tanie Kitabayashi as Madam
- Kazuo Kitamura as Chuji
- Masakazu Kuwayama as Owagawa En's Lover
- Sumie Sasaki as En
- Taiji Tonoyama as Foreman
- Asao Koike as Sawakichi
- Shigeru Tsuyuguchi as Honda
- Emiko Azuma as Kane
Crew
- Shōhei Imamura · Director
- Keiji Hasebe · Writer
- Shōhei Imamura · Writer
- Jirô Tomoda · Producer
- Kazu Ōtsuka · Producer
- Toshirō Mayuzumi · Composer
- Shinsaku Himeda · Cinematographer
- Mutsuo Tanji · Editor