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Hogs and Warships

6.6

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Original title

Buta to gunkan (Hogs and Warships)

Year

1961

Running time

108 min.

Country

Japan

Director

Shôhei Imamura

Screenwriter

Hisashi Yamauchi

Cast

Music

Toshiro Mayuzumi

Cinematography

Shinsaku Himeda (B&W)

Producer

Nikkatsu

Genre

Drama | Yakuza & Triad

Synopsis

Teen hoodlum Kinta is excited to be given the plum job of supervising the pig pen at the local US base, for which he'll be responsible diverting the food scraps to the black market, and scoring a good income for his yakuza gang. His girlfriend Hiroku earnestly hopes he'll leave the yakuza and get an honest job, but neither is she a paragon of virtue - she is drawn into prostitution and petty thievery. The story mostly follows their troubled relationship, against a backdrop steeped in corruption, which results from the clash of US Forces occupation against the poverty and aspirations of the people of post-war Japan.

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Hogs and Warships

1961

Shôhei Imamura

6.6

(222)