Shohei Imamura has been known to push the envelope with social taboos. "The Pornographers" is no exception. Taking a comical approach to voyeurism, Imamura explores the conflicted life of a pornographic film maker who is obsessed with his step-daughter.
"Sex and meals are the pleasures of life. If you deprive a man of that, what's the point in living?" Subu (Shoichi Ozawa) was never cut out to be a white-collared elite. He found his passion in pornography. With a team of two other men, his life time ambition is to provide society with pornographic goods. From films and photographs to sex toys, he kept his word. But when he begins to mix his personal life with business, things get messy quick.