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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 dazzling, unruly portrait of postwar Japan, Pigs and Battleships details, with escalating absurdity, the desperate power struggles between small-time gangsters in the port town of Yokosuka.
- 108 min
Pigs and Battleships: Directed by Shôhei Imamura. With Hiroyuki Nagato, Jitsuko Yoshimura, Masao Mishima, Tetsurô Tanba. A young hoodlum decides to work for a criminal organization that is tearing itself apart.
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- Comedy, Crime, Drama
- Shôhei Imamura
- 1963-09-13
A 1962 Japanese film about postwar gangsters and a young couple in Yokosuka. Watch the restored high-definition digital transfer, interviews, and an essay by Audie Bock.
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Pigs and Battleships was his first big hit and it is a savage comedic look at a post-war Japanese seaside town located adjacent to an American naval base...
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- Shôhei Imamura
Set largely in the grimy back streets of Yukosuka, Pigs and Battleships portrays a symbiotic relationship between the US forces and the Japanese locals, offering a balanced view that leaves nobody unscathed.
A young hoodlum decides to work for a criminal organization that is tearing itself apart. In Yukosuka, many are able to benefit financially, legally and illegally, by the presence of the American naval base established after the war.
