Pigs and battleships Buta to gunkan

Streaming video - 2009

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

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Subjects
Genres
Feature films
Gangster films
Video recordings for the hearing impaired
Published
[Irvington, NY] : The Criterion Collection ©2009.
Language
Japanese
English
Corporate Author
Nikkatsu Kabushiki Kaisha
Corporate Author
Nikkatsu Kabushiki Kaisha (production company)
Other Authors
Shōhei Imamura, 1926-2006 (film director), Hisashi Yamanouchi, 1925-2015 (screenwriter), Kano Otsuka (producer), Hiroyuki Nagato, 1934-2011 (actor), Jitsuko Yoshimura, 1943-, Yōko Minamida, 1933-2009
Edition
Special edition ; DVD edition
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.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (108 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in
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
9781604651553
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