Masahiro Shinoda is one of the most prominent filmmakers of the Japanese New Wave, along with Nagisa Oshima and Shohei Imamura. While Oshima's films were often a venue for political provocation and Imamura's work seemed to be a bawdy refutation of Yasujiro Ozu's refined passivity, Shinoda's movies detail the spiritual emptiness of post-war Japanese life and search for some essence of the Japanese...
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