# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/shohei-imamura
# Generated: 2026-08-14T00:57:42.374Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/shohei-imamura"
name: "Shohei Imamura"
slug: "shohei-imamura"
description: "Shōhei Imamura  was a Japanese film director. His main interest as a filmmaker lay in the depiction of the lower strata of Japanese society. A key figure in the Japanese New Wave, who continued working into the 21st century, Imamura is the only director from Japan to win two Palme d'Or awards, doing so with The Ballad of Narayama (1983) and The Eel (1997)."
tagline: "Japanese film director (1926-2006)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Shohei_Imamura.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "JP"
category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1926-09-15"
deathDate: "2006-05-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           22.003668
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump