 StarPhoenix | Japan`s Shohei Imamura dead at 79 Monsters and Critics.com - Japanese director Shohei Imamura, a two-time winner of the Cannes Film Festival`s Palme d`Or, died Tuesday in Tokyo at age 79. Imamura`s son, Hirosuke, told the BBC his father had been undergoing treatment for liver cancer. Two-time Cannes winner Shohei Imamura dies at 79 Japanese director Imamura dies at 79 |