Pigs, pimps & prostitutes. Imamura, the freethinker. Cinéma de notre temps.
Notes:
880-02 Nagato Hiroyuki, Yoshimura Jitsuko, Minamida Yōko, 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).
Summary:
Portrays postwar Japan through the power struggles between small-time gangsters in the port town of Yokosuka, where there are American soliders based.
Series:
The Criterion collection ; 472 The Criterion collection ; 471
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