The Insect Woman

First Tome (Sachiko Hidari), in rural WWII Japan, in a scene visually and socially almost identical to an earlier one in which she was conceived, confronted by rival Kane (Emiko Higashi), then visiting her own cynical mother (Sumie Sasaki), in Shohei Imamura's The Insect Woman, 1963.

Having leapt to post-WWII and almost-prospering Japan, Tome (Shohei Imamura) still in the factory job, supervised by Matsunami (Hiroyuki Nagato) whom she soon meets in a marsh, more change coming fast in director Shohei Imamura's working-class epic The Insect Woman, 1949.

Pre-WWII Japan and young Tome, illustrating her unusual relationship with her quirky father Chuji (Kazuo Kitamura), then matured (first appearance by Sachiko Hidari in the title role), called home, during the war, to help the family pay the landlord, in Shohei Imamura's The Insect Woman, 1963.

The altogether weird opening of the controversial early feature by director Shohei Imamura, establishing (along with the bug) the heroine's mother En (Sumie Sasaki), the confused dad Chuji (Kazuo Kitamura) the midwife (Tanie Kitabayashi), and the date, in The Insect Woman, 1963.