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Pigs and Battleships (豚と軍艦, Buta to gunkan) is a 1961 Japanese satirical comedy film by director Shōhei Imamura. [1] [2] The film depicts black market trades between the U.S. military and the local underworld at Yokosuka.
A brutal and outrageous symphony of depravity, Shohei Imamura’s Buta to gunkan (US: Pigs and Battleships) takes film noir as far as it can go without shattering into a billion nasty pieces. Viewers be warned: this film is as silly as it is brilliant.
May 29, 2013 · Shohei Imamura's rambunctious PIGS AND BATTLESHIPS (BTA TO GUNKAN) portrays Japan struggling to find its own identity under post-war American Occupation.
Jul 25, 2019 · Buta to gunkan (1961) Jul 25, 2019. English Title: Pigs and Battleships. Directed by: Shôhei Imamura. Synopsis: Kinta (Hiroyuki Nagato) is a young gang member who is put in charge of a pig farm for a small gang of Yakuza that is slowly imploding.
Dec 8, 2007 · Directed by Shohei Imamura. With Hiroyuki Nagato, Jitsuko Yoshimura, Yoko Minamida. Japan, 1961, 35mm, color, 108 min. Japanese with English subtitles. Print source: Japan Foundation. Share.
Overview. In the city of Yokosuka, Kinta and his lover Haruko, both involved with yakuza, brave the post-occupation period with a goal to be together. Shōhei Imamura. Director. Kanō Ōtsuka. Novel. Hisashi Yamanouchi. Screenplay.
A dazzling, unruly portrait of American–occupied postwar Japan, Pigs and Battleships details, with escalating absurdity, the desperate power struggles between small-time gangsters in the port town of Yokosuka. The film is shot in gorgeously composed, bustling cinemascope.
