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Pigs and Battleships is a japonais film of genre Drama directed by Shōhei Imamura with Yōko Minamida
Pigs and Battleships (1961)
Buta to gunkan
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Add to a movie listLength 1h48
Directed by Shōhei Imamura
OriginJapon
Themes Seafaring films, Films about sexuality, Transport films, Erotic films, Films about prostitution, Erotic thriller films
Rating73%
Pigs and Battleships (豚と軍艦 , Buta to gunkan) is a 1961 Japanese film by director Shohei Imamura. The film depicts the mutually exploitative relationship that exists between the U.S. military and the lower elements of Japanese society at Yokosuka. It is based on the novel by Kazu Otsuka.
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The film focuses on Kinta, a member of the Himori Yakuza, who has been put in charge of the gang's pork distribution and his girlfriend Haruko, who works at a bar. Kinta is shown working with other gangsters, beating up a local shopkeep who caters to Americans and paying the people who work on the hog farm. When Kinta goes to visit Haruko in the afternoon she leaves without speaking to him and Kinta finds out through her sister that Haruko is being paid 30000 yen to go on a date with a sailor (and that her mother has already spent the money). Haruko returns to Kinta later that night, although Kinta is unhappy because of the earlier events. Haruko reveals that she is pregnant and expresses her concerns about Kinta’s work.Actors
Yōko Minamida
(Katsuyo)
Hiroyuki Nagato
(Kinta)
Tetsurō Tanba
(Slasher Tetsuji)
Shirō Ōsaka
(Hoshino)
Takeshi Katō
(Ohachi)
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