Ningen Jôhatsu A Man Vanishes (1967)

A gripping examination of memory, trust and how a missing person lives on, Shohei Imamura's 'A Man Vanishes' is a challenging one-of-a-kind documentary mystery thriller.

A middle-class salaryman has gone missing - possibly of his own accord - and a film crew has set out to assemble a record of the man and the events surrounding his disappearance. As the crew meticulously builds a cachet of interviews with the man’s family and lovers, their subject and his motivations become progressively more elusive - until the impossibility of the endeavour seems to transform the very film itself.