 Imamura's film won the Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or.In 1960, the literary magazine "Chūōkōron" published his satire "Furyū mutan" (風流夢譚,“The Story of a Dream of Courtly Elegance").In it the narrator dreams that leftists take over the Imperial Palace and behead Crown Prince Akihito and Princess Michiko before an enthusiastic crowd.