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A Man Vanishes

Ningen Johatsu (A Man Vanishes)

1967

Shôhei Imamura

Documentary, Self: Yoshie Hayakawa, Shôhei Imamura, Shigeru Tsuyuguchi

6.9

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Documentary Ostensibly Imamura's first work in documentary features, A Man Vanishes is much more, heralding the future work of Kazuo Hara and Werner Herzog, amongst others, in the genre-defying mix of style and loose adherence to filmic "reality." Imamura follows one case of a growing phenomenon of working Japanese men who, sent to other cities while their families are left behind, disappear completely. The film concerns Yoshie Hayakawa, whose ... [+]

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