Nagisa Oshima
Alongside Nagisa Oshima, Shōhei Imamura became one of the more famous of the Japanese New Wave filmmakers. Imamura's work was less overtly political than Oshima or several filmmakers who emerged later in the 1960s. Nevertheless, Imamura in many ways became a standard-bearer for the Japanese New Wave: through his last feature ("Warm Water Under a Red Bridge", 2001), Imamura never lost interest in his trademark characters and settings.