Pigs and Battleships (1961) on Netflix
Kinta works the pork trade for the Himori gang in Yokosuka. His girlfriend Haruko works at a bar, and she is being paid for a date with a sailor.
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Plot summary
Kinta belongs to the Himori gang in Yokosuka, which has given him its pork trade. His girlfriend Haruko works at a bar. Kinta and other gangsters beat a shopkeeper who caters to Americans and pay the men on the hog farm. One afternoon Haruko walks off without a word to him, and through her sister Kinta learns that a sailor is paying 30,000 yen for a date with her, cash her mother has already spent. Haruko returns to him that night, pregnant and worried about the work he does.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Pigs and Battleships (1961)
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- After Pigs and Battleships, Nikkatsu banned director Shōhei Imamura from directing for two years, citing the film's controversial nature and his overrunning production time and costs; he wrote screenplays during the ban.
- Director Shōhei Imamura wanted 1,500 pigs for the film's climax, but financial constraints forced him to make do with just 400.
- Director Shōhei Imamura had been a black-market hustler himself in post-war Japan, and researched the film by spending time with gangsters, who teased him for working hard without much money.
