Pigs and battleships.
A dazzling, unruly portrait of postwar Japan, Pigs and battleships details, with escalating absurdity, the desperate power struggles between small-time gangsters in the port town of Yokosuka. Shot in gorgeously composed, bustling CinemaScope, the film follows a young couple as they try to navigate Y...
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| Format: | Video |
| Language: | Japanese |
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[San Francisco, California, USA] :
Kanopy Streaming,
2014.
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| Summary: | A dazzling, unruly portrait of postwar Japan, Pigs and battleships details, with escalating absurdity, the desperate power struggles between small-time gangsters in the port town of Yokosuka. Shot in gorgeously composed, bustling CinemaScope, the film follows a young couple as they try to navigate Yokosuka's corrupt businessmen, chimpira, and their own unsure future together. With its breakneck pacing and constantly inventive cinematography, this film marked Shohei Imamura as a major voice in Japanese cinema. |
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| Item Description: | Title from title frames. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 108 minutes) : digital, .flv file, sound |
| Format: | Mode of access: World Wide Web. |