The Insect Woman

Name: The Insect Woman
Genre: Drama
Released: 1963
Duration: 123 min
Rating: 7.234

1963 · 123 min

Drama

★ 7.2

Criterion

A woman, Tome, is born to a lower class family in Japan in 1918. The title refers to an insect, repeating its mistakes, as in an infinite circle. Imamura, with this metaphor, introduces the life of Tome, who keeps trying to change her poor life.

Crew

Director Shōhei Imamura
Writer Shōhei Imamura
Writer Keiji Hasebe
Director of Photography Shinsaku Himeda

Cast

Sachiko Hidari
Tome Matsuki
Jitsuko Yoshimura
Nobuko
Shoichi Ozawa
Ken
Hiroyuki Nagato
Matsunami
Kayoko Honoo
Miyako
Masumi Harukawa
Midori
E
Emiko Aizawa
Rui
E
Emiko Higashi
Kane
Daizaburo Hirata
Kamibayashi
Seizaburō Kawazu
Karasawa
Teruko Kishi
Rin
Tanie Kitabayashi
Madam

Crew

Director — Shōhei Imamura
Writer — Shōhei Imamura
Writer — Keiji Hasebe
Director of Photography — Shinsaku Himeda

External reads

No articles linked yet.

🔥 Hot takes

warming up the wall…

Intermission

GO DEEPER

Turn the obscurity dial up. There's a lot further down to go.

Deal me more →

Metadata & streaming data: TMDB (JustWatch). This product uses the TMDB API but is not endorsed or certified by TMDB.