Hiroyuki Nagato
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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.
Pigs and Battleships (豚と軍艦, Buta to gunkan) is a 1961 Japanese satirical comedy film by director Shōhei Imamura. 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.
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.
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.
In postwar, occupied Japan, Kinta (Hiroyuki Nagato) is a young hustler working for the local Yakuza crime boss. The gang is entering the pig farming business, and Kinta is put in charge of raising the pigs and promised a big bonus when they're sold.
Directed by Shohei Imamura • 1962 • Japan. Starring Jitsuko Yoshimura, Yoko Minamida, Hiroyuki Nagato. 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.
In postwar, occupied Japan, Kinta (Hiroyuki Nagato) is a young hustler working for the local Yakuza crime boss. The gang is entering the pig farming business, and Kinta...
- Drama, Crime
May 20, 2009 · Shohei Imamura’s 1961 black-and-white caper movie Pigs and Battleships bursts with the confusion and exuberance of a cross-cultural encounter. In its lively portrayal of enthusiastic Japanese locals welcoming the U.S. Navy on R&R to the former fishing village of Yokosuka, the film holds true to the stereotype of Americans as big, dumb ...
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. Unlike many of the Japanese films that came before it, this 'new wave' of Japanese cinema was looking at itself in the context of the ...
