Creative Legacy
The Japanese New Wave began to come apart (as it did in France) by the early 1970s; in the face of a collapsing studio system, major directors retreated into documentary work (Hani and - for a while - Imamura), other artistic pursuits (Teshigahara, who practiced sculpture and became grand master of an Ikebana school), or into international co-productions (Oshima).
In the face of such difficulties, a few of the key figures of the Japanese New Wave were still able to make notable films - Oshima's 1976 film In the Realm of the Senses became internationally famous in its blend of historical drama and aspects of pornography (drawn from an actual historical incident), and - after a return to filmmaking Teshigahara won acclaim for his experimentalistic documentary Antonio Gaudí (1984) and the features Rikyu (1989) and Princess Goh (1992). Shōhei Imamura eventually became one of only four filmmakers to win the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival for multiple films - The Ballad of Narayama (1983), and The Eel, in 1991.
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