Pigs and Battleships

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film

Pigs and Battleships is a 1961 satirical Japanese film that critiques postwar society through a darkly comic story of small-time gangsters entangled with U.S. military presence in a port town.

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All labels observed (2)

Label	Occurrences
Pigs and Battleships canonical	2
Battleship	1

Statements (44)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	film ⓘ
cinematographyBy	Shinsaku Himeda NERFINISHED ⓘ
countryOfOrigin	Japan ⓘ
director	Shohei Imamura NERFINISHED ⓘ
distributor	Nikkatsu NERFINISHED ⓘ
editedBy	Mutsuo Tanji NERFINISHED ⓘ
filmMovement	Japanese New Wave NERFINISHED ⓘ
genre	black comedy ⓘ crime film ⓘ satire ⓘ
hasColorProcess	black-and-white ⓘ
hasWikipediaPage	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigs_and_Battleships NERFINISHED ⓘ
languageSubtitlesAvailable	English ⓘ
mainCharacter	Haruko NERFINISHED ⓘ Kinta NERFINISHED ⓘ
musicBy	Toshiro Mayuzumi NERFINISHED ⓘ
narrativeFocus	U.S. military presence in Japan ⓘ postwar Japanese society ⓘ small-time gangsters ⓘ
notableFor	darkly comic tone ⓘ depiction of U.S. military influence in a Japanese port town ⓘ satirical critique of postwar Japanese society ⓘ
originalLanguage	Japanese ⓘ
portrays	clash between traditional values and modernization ⓘ corruption in port-town underworld ⓘ exploitation linked to U.S. military bases ⓘ
producer	Tomio Ikeda NERFINISHED ⓘ
productionCompany	Nikkatsu NERFINISHED ⓘ
releaseDate	1961-10-15 ⓘ
releaseYear	1961 ⓘ
runtimeMinutes	108 ⓘ
screenwriter	Hisashi Yamanouchi NERFINISHED ⓘ Shohei Imamura NERFINISHED ⓘ
settingCountry	Japan NERFINISHED ⓘ
settingLocation	Yokosuka NERFINISHED ⓘ
stars	Hiroyuki Nagato NERFINISHED ⓘ Jitsuko Yoshimura NERFINISHED ⓘ Masao Mishima NERFINISHED ⓘ Tetsuro Tamba NERFINISHED ⓘ
theme	Americanization of Japan NERFINISHED ⓘ gender inequality ⓘ organized crime ⓘ poverty and aspiration ⓘ social criticism ⓘ

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Imamura Shohei → notableWork → Pigs and Battleships ⓘ

Imamura Shohei → directed → Pigs and Battleships ⓘ

Tadanobu Asano → notableWork → Pigs and Battleships ⓘ

this entity surface form: Battleship