Buta to gunkan

1961 [JAPANESE]

Action / Comedy / Crime / Drama / Romance

9
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 87% · 250 ratings
IMDb Rating 7.4/10 10 2915 2.9K

japan gangster yakuza u.s. navy gang rape poverty

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Plot summary

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.

Director

Shôhei Imamura Photo
Shôhei Imamura

Top cast

Shirô Ôsaka Photo
Shirô Ôsaka as Hoshino
Shôichi Ozawa Photo
Shôichi Ozawa as Gunji, Gangster in check shirt
Sanae Nakahara Photo
Sanae Nakahara as Hiromi
Hyôe Enoki Photo
Hyôe Enoki as
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991.93 MB
1280*544
Japanese 2.0
Not Rated
Subtitles
23.976 fps
1 hr 47 min
Seeds 2
1.8 GB
1920*816
Japanese 2.0
Not Rated
Subtitles
23.976 fps
1 hr 47 min
Seeds 8

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Scott R 7 / 10

NYT 1000 films. An important story about Japan

NYT 1000 films. An important story about Japan and the impact of the GIs in post WW2 culture bringing their money and the Japanese trying to get what they can with prostitution and other things. This one focused on food scraps they would then feed to pigs they would get from the military. The pigs would then be sold back to the military and make lots of money. This involved corruption and back room deals. All this was framed around a young couple trying to survive but yet having subtle nuances of character that made them less likable. Saw on tubi.
Reviewed by R T 7 / 10

Lots of Pigs. Light on Battleships

Lots of Pigs. Light on Battleships.
Reviewed by R T 7 / 10

Imamura's films are hard to predict; from my

Imamura's films are hard to predict; from my limited exposure to him, it seems that he doesn't use genre (or formula) as a starting place for his films. 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 (Yokosuka). We follow an odd gang of chimpira (junior yakuza) who arrange a deal with a Japanese-American from Hawaii to buy food scraps from the base to support a pig farm (since pork prices are rising). The unlucky loser among this bunch, Kinta, has a girlfriend who wishes to break away from the town and its symbiotic relationship with the Americans. I say symbiotic instead of parasitic because Imamura is clear that it is the Americans that are exploiting and corrupting the Japanese (who may be willing participants, he suggests); in fact, the Americans are uniformly treated as brutal lugs here, seen mostly in brothels. Gradually the film focuses in on Kinta and Haruko and their fate. We hope they escape - but in an Imamura film, you never can be sure.
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