{"id":1744,"date":"2006-06-06T00:59:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-06T04:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2006\/06\/06\/obit-shohei-imamura-79-japanese-new-wave-filmmaker\/"},"modified":"2006-06-06T00:59:00","modified_gmt":"2006-06-06T04:59:00","slug":"obit-shohei-imamura-79-japanese-new-wave-filmmaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2006\/06\/06\/obit-shohei-imamura-79-japanese-new-wave-filmmaker\/","title":{"rendered":"Obit: Shohei Imamura, 79, Japanese New Wave filmmaker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/4258\/2290\/1600\/Imamura2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer;cursor:hand\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/4258\/2290\/200\/Imamura2.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>Imamura was one of the icons of Japanese New Wave cinema, twice winning the Palme d&#8217;Or at the Cannes Film Festival. Concentrating on gritty social issues, he frequently raised eyebrows with his work, which included a piece based on the September 11th terrorist attacks as part of the 2002 short film compilation 11&#8217;09&#8221;01 (DVD 1329). Cause of death was liver cancer.  <\/p>\n<p>Other Imamura films in Media Services:<br \/>The Eel  DVD 438<br \/>Black Rain  VHS 954<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shohei_Imamura\">Wikipedia article on Imamura<\/a>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imamura was one of the icons of Japanese New Wave cinema, twice winning the Palme d&#8217;Or at the Cannes Film Festival. Concentrating on gritty social issues, he frequently raised eyebrows with his work, which included a piece based on the September 11th terrorist attacks as part of the 2002 short film compilation 11&#8217;09&#8221;01 (DVD 1329). [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}