A Man Vanishes

A Man Vanishes
Directed by	Shohei Imamura
Produced by	Shohei Imamura
Written by	Keiji Hasebe Shohei Imamura
Starring	Yoshie Hayakawa Shohei Imamura Shigeru Tsuyuguchi
Music by	Toshiro Mayuzumi
Cinematography	Kenji Ishiguro
Edited by	Matsuo Tanji
Distributed by	Art Theatre Guild (Japan) (theatrical), Nikkatsu Corporation (Japan) (theatrical), Toho International Company Inc. (USA), Icarus Films (USA)
Release dates	July 8, 1967
Running time	130 min.
Language	Japanese

A Man Vanishes (人間蒸発, Ningen Jōhatsu) is a 1967 Japanese film by director Shohei Imamura.

Outline

Superficially, it is a documentary about an ordinary man who—like many Japanese every year—disappears without trace, leaving his job and fiancee behind. Imamura, though, takes the narrative in unexpected directions, causing the viewer to question what is reality and what might be fiction.

A Region 0 DVD release in the Masters of Cinema series was issued in October 2011.^[1]

References

↑ "A Man Vanishes (Masters of Cinema)", DVD Video Review, The Digital Fix, 17 January 2012

External links

Ningen Johatsu at the Internet Movie Database
"人間蒸発 (Ningen Johatsu)" (in Japanese). Japanese Movie Database. Retrieved 2007-07-17.

Films directed by Shohei Imamura

Stolen Desire (1958)
Nishi Ginza Station (1958)
Endless Desire (1958)
My Second Brother (1959)
Pigs and Battleships (1961)
The Insect Woman (1963)
Unholy Desire (1964)
The Pornographers (1966)
A Man Vanishes (1967)
The Profound Desire of the Gods (1968)
History of Postwar Japan as Told by a Bar Hostess (1970)
Karayuki-san, the Making of a Prostitute (1975)
Vengeance Is Mine (1979)
Eijanaika (1981)
The Ballad of Narayama (1983)
Zegen (1987)
Black Rain (1989)
The Eel (1998)
Dr. Akagi (1998)
Warm Water Under a Red Bridge (2001)
11'09"01 September 11 (2002)

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