Then I watched my work disc for the day - Imamura's THE INSECT WOMAN. Tracing the life of a Japanese woman from her birth in 1918 in the various ups and downs of her life through 1959, it had its interesting moments, but I found it hard to get immersed in this woman's life, quite frankly. From siring a daughter with her father through stints as a maid (whereby her carelessness causing the death of the family's child by being scaulded to death), a prostitute, a powerful madam and finally to prison and once out seeing the cycle repeat through that illegitimate daughter of hers, I was not a feel good movie, and it was much too long for the story it was telling.
Overall, a disappointment.