- Mentor to Takashi Miike, who attended Imamura's own film school in Yokohama.
- He is one of a select band of directors to have won the Palme d'Or twice at the Cannes Film Festival. The others are Francis Ford Coppola, Alf Sjöberg, Bille August, Emir Kusturica, Jean-Pierre Dardenne & Luc Dardenne, Michael Haneke, Ken Loach and Ruben Östlund.
- Father of Hirosuke Imamura and Daisuke Tengan, who collaborated on screenplays for his last three films.
- Biography in: John Wakeman, editor. "World Film Directors, Volume Two, 1945-1985". Pages 451-458. New York: The H.W. Wilson Company, 1988.
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