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Buta to gunkan : Pigs and battleships /

豚と軍艦
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Portrays postwar Japan through the power struggles between small-time gangsters in the port town of Yokosuka, where there are American soliders based.

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: Nikkatsu Kabushiki Kaisha, Criterion Collection (Firm)
Other Authors: Yamanouchi, Hisashi, 1925- (Screenwriter), Ōtsuka, Kano (Producer), Imamura, Shōhei, 1926-2006 (Director), Nagato, Hiroyuki, 1934-2011 (Actor), Yoshimura, Jitsuko, 1943- (Actor), Minamida, Yōko, 1933-2009 (Actor), Himeda, Shinsaku, 1916-1997 (Cinematographer), Mayuzumi, Toshirō, 1929-1997, Bock, Audie, 1945-
Format: Video DVD
Language:Japanese
Language Notes:In Japanese, with optional English subtitles.
Published: [United States] : The Criterion Collection, [2009]
Edition:Special ed.
Series:Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 472.
Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 471.
Subjects:
Japan > Social conditions > 1945- > Drama.
Crime > Japan > Yokosuka-shi > Drama.
Americans > Japan > Yokosuka-shi > Drama.
Yokosuka-shi (Japan) > Drama.
Foreign films.
Motion pictures, Japanese.
Feature films.
Gangster films.
Fiction films.
Description
Summary:Portrays postwar Japan through the power struggles between small-time gangsters in the port town of Yokosuka, where there are American soliders based.
Item Description:Originally released as a motion picture 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).
Videorecording.
Physical Description:1 videodisc (108 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Format:DVD; region 1; NTSC; widescreen (2.35:1) presentation; Dolby digital mono.
Audience:Not rated.
Production Credits:Cinematographer, Himeda Shinsaku; music, Mayuzumi Toshirō; art, Nakamura Kimihiko ; editor, Tanji Mutsuo.
ISBN:9781604651522
1604651520
9781604651553 (set)
1604651555 (set)