If you loved The Pornographers, try The Insect Woman

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

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The Pornographers

The Pornographers

1966 · dir. Shōhei Imamura

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The Insect Woman

The Insect Woman

1963 · dir. Shōhei Imamura

What they share

Both films are directed by Shōhei Imamura, and they sit in Drama territory. If that's the register that drew you to The Pornographers, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

What The Insect Woman is

Naruse’s *When a Woman Ascends* meets Ozu’s *Late Spring* as a flywheel of misfortune. A rural girl’s century of defeats spins around her, her children’s lives recycling her own errors. The camera traces a half-century without pity.