Pigs and Battleships, dir Shohei Imamura, Japan 1961
Pigs and Battleships
23 October 2009
£8 / £7 Concessions / £6 ICA Members.
Carefully controlled but with a manic energy and breakneck pace, this early Imamura drama is set among the postwar criminal underworld in the port town of Yokosuka. A power struggle between small-time gangsters drives the action, but myriad human stories seeth beneath the surface.
dir Shohei Imamura, Japan 1961, 77 mins, subtitles, 35mm
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