Pigs and Battleships

Shōhei Imamura was a Japanese film director. Imamura was the first Japanese director to win two Palme d'Or awards. His eldest son Daisuke Tengan is also a script writer and film director, and worked on the screenplays to Imamura's films The Eel , Dr. Akagi , Warm Water Under a Red Bridge and... 11'9''01 September 11 . Though born to a comfortably upper-middle-class doctor's family in Tokyo, Imamura was introduced to another part of post-war Japanese society early in life. For a short time after 1945, when Japan was in a devastated condition following the war, Imamura participated in the thriving black market selling cigarettes and liquor. Reflecting this period of his life, Imamura's interests as a filmmaker were usually focused on the lower strata of Japanese society. He studied Western history at Waseda University, but spent more time participating in theatrical and political activities .
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