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Pigs and Battleships : Buta to Gunkan

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Originally released in 1961.
Issued in box set with title: Pigs, pimps & prostitutes : 3 films by Shohei Imamura (Criterion collection ; 471).
Special features: Episode of the French TV series Cinéma de notre temps, "Imamura : the freethinker" (1995) ; Interview with Tony Rayns ; essay by Audie Bock (in booklet) ; new English subtitle translation.
Hiroyuki Nagato, Jitsuko Yoshimura, Yōko Minamida.
Portrays postwar Japan through the power struggles between small-time gangsters in the port town of Yokosuka, where there are American soliders based.
DVD; 2.35:1 aspect ratio; monaural.
Contents: Feeding frenzy.

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SERIES
Criterion collection
472.


LANGUAGE OPTIONS
Japanese dialog; optional English subtitles.

PUBLISHED
[United States] : The Criterion Collection, c2009.
Year Published: 2009
Description: 1 videodisc (108 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (12 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)
Format: DVD

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781604651522
1604651520
9781604651553 (set)
1604651555 (set)

ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Otsuka, Kano
Imamura, Shōhei, 1926-2006.
Yamanouchi, Hisashi, 1925-
Nagato, Hiroyuki, 1934-
Yoshimura, Jitsuko, 1943-
Minamida, Yōko, 1933-
Himeda, Shinsaku, 1916-1997.
Mayuzumi, Toshirō, 1929-1997.
Rayns, Tony.
Bock, Audie, 1945-
Nikkatsu Kabushiki Kaisha.
Criterion Collection (Firm)

SUBJECTS
Crime -- Yokosuka-shi -- Drama.
Americans -- Yokosuka-shi -- Drama.
Japan -- Social conditions -- 1945- -- Drama.
Yokosuka-shi (Japan) -- Drama.
Feature films.
Gangster films.
Motion pictures, Japanese.