Hogs and Warships
1961·Japan·108 min.
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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.
DirectorShôhei Imamura
ScreenwriterHisashi Yamauchi
MusicToshiro Mayuzumi
CinematographyShinsaku Himeda
CastJitsuko Yoshimura·Yôko Minamida·Masao Mishima·Hiroyuki Nagato·Tetsurô Tanba·Shirô Ôsaka·Takeshi Katô·Shoichi Ozawa·Hideo Sato·Eijirô Tono·Akira Yamauchi·Sanae Nakahara·Kin Sugai·Bumon Kahara·Tomio AokiShow all
Original titleButa to gunkan (Hogs and Warships)