The Insect Woman

The Insect Woman (1963)

November 16th, 19632h 3min

Drama
72%

Overview

A woman, Tome, is born to a lower class family in Japan in 1918. The title refers to an insect, repeating its mistakes, as in an infinite circle. Imamura, with this metaphor, introduces the life of Tome, who keeps trying to change her poor life.


Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!

Trailer

Similar Movies

Torment

Torment


Released on: 1994-02-16
Drama, Thriller

Forced to work extremely hard to keep things afloat, Paul begins hearing voices in his head question...

A Christmas Carol

A Christmas Carol


Released on: 2009-11-04
Animation, Family, Fantasy, Drama

Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable e...

The Gray Man

The Gray Man


Released on: 2007-08-30
Crime, Drama, Thriller, Horror

In the late 1920s, Albert Fish, a seemingly benevolent father and grandfather who reared his family ...

The Beethoven Method

The Beethoven Method


Released on: 2022-08-01
Comedy, Drama, Romance

When Arnie Silverman, a manic-depressive novelist, begins a bout of self-harm and lies to his girlfr...

Saawariya

Saawariya


Released on: 2007-11-09
Drama, Music, Romance, Family

Two souls arrive in a small town, one on vacation, the other to meet a lover. They spend the most ma...

Auntie Mame

Auntie Mame


Released on: 1958-12-04
Comedy, Drama

Mame Dennis, a progressive and independent woman of the 1920s, is left to care for her nephew Patric...

The Idiotmaker's Gravity Tour

The Idiotmaker's Gravity Tour


Released on: 2011-08-18
Drama, Comedy

Max Plugin is a jaded but flamboyant relic of the 1960s. In his teens, Max ran away to California, w...

Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood

Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood


Released on: 2022-03-24
Animation, Comedy, Drama

A man narrates stories of his life as a 10-year-old boy in 1969 Houston, weaving tales of nostalgia ...

Aramane

Aramane


Released on: 2008-04-25
Drama, Family

A photographer named Arun befriends Rajashekhara, a wealthy but lonely man who has resorted to drink...

Spotswood

Spotswood


Released on: 1992-01-23
Comedy, Drama

Wallace is an efficiency expert, managing the high-profile downsizing of a major auto parts factory....

Japan Sinks

Japan Sinks


Released on: 2006-07-15
Drama, Thriller, Adventure, Science Fiction

In the aftermath of a major earthquake, scientists predict that Japan will sink into the sea. As fur...

Forbidden

Forbidden


Released on: 2002-06-25
Drama, Romance

At his bachelor party, Jason has a one-night fling with Nikki, a radiant beauty with whom he forms a...

The Heroes of Telemark

The Heroes of Telemark


Released on: 1965-11-12
Action, Drama, War

Set in German-occupied Norway, resistance fighter Knut Straud enlists the reluctant physicist Rolf P...

Gardens of the Night

Gardens of the Night


Released on: 2008-11-21
Crime, Drama

After being abducted as children, and suffering years of abuse, a teenage boy and girl find themselv...

National Velvet

National Velvet


Released on: 1945-01-26
Drama, Family

Mi Taylor is a young wanderer and opportunist who finds himself in the quiet English countryside hom...

The Gauntlet

The Gauntlet


Released on: 1977-12-17
Drama, Action, Crime, Thriller

Phoenix cop Ben Shockley is well on his way to becoming a derelict when he is assigned to transport ...

Where the Day Takes You

Where the Day Takes You


Released on: 1992-09-11
Drama, Thriller, Crime

King is a young man, but he's already a veteran of life on the streets of Los Angeles. The de facto ...

Stoned

Stoned


Released on: 2005-11-18
Drama

A chronicle of the sordid life and suspicious death of Rolling Stones co-founder Brian Jones, who wa...

The Waiting Room, or Eggs in Purgatory

The Waiting Room, or Eggs in Purgatory


Released on: 2023-06-23
Horror, Drama

In a waiting room in the space between the living and the beyond, an unlikely pair sits impatiently ...

Kurt Turns Evil

Kurt Turns Evil


Released on: 2009-03-25
Animation, Comedy, Drama

One day Kurt discovers that society does not respect forklift operators very much. He quits his job,...