A Man Vanishes
Sun. Jan 27, 2013 at 5:15pm EST
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A Man Vanishes
1967. Japan. Directed by Shohei Imamura. With Yoshie Hayakawa, Shigeru Tsuyuguchi, Imamura. In this investigative—and investigation of—documentary, Imamura and his crew follow one of Japan’s thousands of missing-persons cases. They find their journalistic integrity suddenly called into question when the missing man’s fiancée begins to fall in love with the filmmaker. “In a coup de cinéma that has been equaled only by Abbas Kiarostami’s Close-Up, Imamura transforms fact into artifice, being into acting, personal identity into tenuous fabrication” (James Quandt, Cinematheque Ontario). In Japanese; English subtitles. 130 min.
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