Pigs and Battleships
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Pigs and Battleships
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Long before he gained fame for winning the 1983 Cannes Golden Palm award for The Ballad of Narayama, director Shohei Imamura created this superbly crafted, sardonic drama about the yakuza (Japanese Mafia) and the modernization of Japan after World War II. Kinta (Hiroyuki Nagato) is caught in the mesh of poverty and opts out by joining the local yakuza gang. His greed draws him into the drug dealing, pimping, and racketeering that fill the gang's coffers. One day he is given the legit job of tending the pigs owned by his mob boss, who live on the slop thrown out by the neighborhood's American military base. Kinta's girlfriend begs him to go straight and settle down, but he can't see a future in it. As the final denouement nears, increasingly acerbic commentary, mixed with pointed symbolism, decries American treatment of Japan and the Japanese' own moral corruption. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, RoviCast
- Hiroyuki Nagato - Kinta
- Jitsuko Yoshimura - Haruko
- Tetsuro Tamba - Tetsu
- Shiro Osaka
Credit
Shohei Imamura - Director, Toshiro Mayuzumi - Composer (Music Score), Shinsaku Himeda - Cinematographer| Pigs Will Fly (2002 Film), Pigs (1984 Film) | |
| Pigs! (1967 Film), Pigskin Parade (1936 Film) |
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Pigs and Battleships
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 VHS cover for Pigs and Battleships (1961) |
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| Directed by | Shohei Imamura |
| Produced by | Kano Ōtsuka |
| Written by | Hisashi Yamauchi |
| Starring | Jitsuko Yoshimura Yōko Minamida |
| Music by | Toshirō Mayuzumi |
| Cinematography | Sinsaku Himeda |
| Distributed by |  Nikkatsu European Producers International |
| Release date(s) | Jan 21, 1961 |
| Running time | 108 min |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
Pigs and Battleships (豚と軍艦 Buta to gunkan) is a 1961 Japanese film by director Shohei Imamura.
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Plot
The film depicts the mutually exploitative relationship that exists between the U.S. military and the lower elements of Japanese society at Yokosuka.
Awards
Pigs and Battleships won the 1961 Blue Ribbon Award for Best Film.[1]
Notes
- ^ Awards based on "Awards for Buta to gunkan (1961)". Internet Movie Database. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054709/awards. Retrieved 2007-11-06.
Sources
- "BUTA TO GUNKAN". The Complete Index to World Film. http://www.citwf.com/film48821.htm. Retrieved 2007-11-28.
- Buta to gunkan at the Internet Movie Database
- "豚と軍艦 (Buta to gunkan)" (in Japanese). Japanese Movie Database. http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/1961/ck000390.htm. Retrieved 2007-07-16.
- Desser, David (1985). "Pigs and Battleships (Buta to gunkan)". In Frank N. Magill. Magill's Survey of Cinema: Foreign Language Films; Volume 5. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Salem Press. pp. 2442–2446. ISBN 0-89356-243-2.
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