Pigs and Battleships
| Pigs and Battleships | |
|---|---|
 VHS cover for Pigs and Battleships (1961) | |
| Directed by | Shohei Imamura |
| Produced by | Kano Ōtsuka |
| Written by | Hisashi Yamauchi |
| Starring |
Jitsuko Yoshimura Yōko Minamida |
| Music by | Toshirō Mayuzumi |
| Cinematography | Sinsaku Himeda |
| Distributed by |
Nikkatsu (Japan) European Producers International (U.S.) |
Release dates |
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Running time | 108 min |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
Pigs and Battleships (豚と軍艦 Buta to gunkan) is a 1961 Japanese film by director Shohei Imamura.
Plot
The film depicts the mutually exploitative relationship that exists between the U.S. military and the lower elements of Japanese society at Yokosuka.
Cast
- Hiroyuki Nagato - Kinta
- Jitsuko Yoshimura - Haruko
- Masao Mishima - Himori
- Tetsurō Tamba - Slasher Tetsuji
- Shirō Ōsaka - Hoshino
- Takeshi Katō - Ohachi
- Shôichi Ozawa - Gunji, Gangster in check shirt
- Yōko Minamida - Katsuyo
- Hideo Sato - Kikuo
- Eijirō Tōno - Kan'ichi
- Akira Yamauchi - Sakiyama
- Sanae Nakahara - Hiromi
- Kin Sugai - Haruko's mother
- Bumon Kahara - Harukoma
Awards
Pigs and Battleships won the 1961 Blue Ribbon Award for Best Film.[1]
Notes
- ↑ Awards based on "Awards for Buta to gunkan (1961)". Internet Movie Database. Retrieved 2007-11-06.
Sources
- "BUTA TO GUNKAN". The Complete Index to World Film. Retrieved 2007-11-28.
- Buta to gunkan at the Internet Movie Database
- "豚と軍艦 (Buta to gunkan)" (in Japanese). Japanese Movie Database. Retrieved 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. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Salem Press. pp. 2442–2446. ISBN 0-89356-243-2.
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