Hogs and Warships

1961 · Movie · 108 min. · Japan

Drama Yakuza · Triad

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.

Direction Shôhei Imamura

Cast Jitsuko 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 Aoki