Pigs and Battleships
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VHS cover for Pigs and Battleships (1961) |
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Directed by | Shohei Imamura |
Produced by | Masaya Nakamura |
Written by | Hisashi Yamauchi |
Starring | Jitsuko Yoshimura Yôko Minamida |
Music by | Toshirō Mayuzumi |
Cinematography | Sinsaku Himeda |
Distributed by | Nikkatsu European Producers International |
Release date(s) | Jan 21, 1961 |
Running time | 108 min |
Country | Japan |
Language | Japanese |
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Pigs and Battleships (豚と軍艦 Buta to gunkan?) is a 1961 Japanese film by director Shohei Imamura.
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[edit] Plot
The film depicts the mutually exploitive relationship that exists between the U.S. military and the lower elements of Japanese society at Yokosuka.
[edit] Awards
Pigs and Battleships won Best Film in Japan's Blue Ribbon Awards.[1]
[edit] Notes
- ^ Awards based on Awards for Buta to gunkan (1961) (English). Internet Movie Database. Retrieved on 2007-11-06.
[edit] Sources
- BUTA TO GUNKAN (English). The Complete Index to World Film. Retrieved on 2007-11-28.
- Buta to gunkan at the Internet Movie Database
- 豚と軍艦 (Buta to gunkan) (Japanese). Japanese Movie Database. Retrieved on 2007-07-16.
- Desser, David (1985). "Pigs and Battleships (Buta to gunkan)", in Frank N. Magill: Magill's Survey of Cinema: Foreign Language Films; Volume 5 (in English). Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Salem Press, pp.2442-2446. ISBN 0-89356-243-2.