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Seen by many as Imamura's most important and complex film, the groundbreak documentary was decades ahead of the fad in blurring fact and fiction. A Man Vanishes sets out to document objectively Johatsu, the phenomenon of people who go missing every year in Japan. Imamura focuses on OSHIMA Tadashi who disappeared two years before. His interviewer questions Oshima's family, colleagues, and Nezumi, his fiance, who is told by a shaman that her sister murdered him.But the financee suddenly loses interest in her missing man, having fallen in love with the interviewer. Faced with a sensitive but fascinating situation, Imamura begins filming Nezumi secretly. The situation grows more complicated Nezumi's sister quite possibly had an affair with the missing man. Deeply troubled by his role in the film and the entire affair, Imamura concludes in the film audacious final sequence that there is no "truth" in cinema - but a fact turned into fiction by the presence of a camera. Long a legend, endlessly analysed but rarely seen, this film brings forth moral and philosophical questions.

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