Director
Shôhei Imamura
Music (original)
Toshirô Mayuzumi
Cast
Hiroyuki Nagato, Jitsuko Yoshimura, Masao Mishima
Edition 1998
108'
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1961
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Crime, Drama, Comedy
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Format:
35mm
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Dialogue:
English, Japanese
The film’s teenage heroine Haruko lives near the US naval base at Yokosuka, a magnet for prostitutes, gangsters and black marketers. Haruko’s older sister has become a prostitute and her naively ambitious boyfriend Kinta is involved with petty gangsters, raising pigs on refuse from the base. But Haruko herself is determined to escape their jackal existence, and begs her boyfriend to leave Yokosuka with her. A gang tries to steal Kinta’s pigs and chaos and death ensues. Haruko is brutally raped by the gang but knows to survive somehow. Kinta on the other hand gets killed in the fight. Haruko leaves the village to start a new life…
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Credits
Directors
Shôhei Imamura
Music (original)
Toshirô Mayuzumi
Cast
Hiroyuki Nagato, Jitsuko Yoshimura, Masao Mishima
Scenario
Hisashi Yamanouchi, Gisashi Yamauchi, Kazu Ôtsuka
Director of Photography
Shinsaku Himeda
Editors
Mutsuo Tanji
Producers
Kazu Ôtsuka
More info
Dialogue
English, Japanese
Countries of production
Japan
Year
1961
Filmography
Shôhei Imamura
Stolen Desire (1958), Nishi Ginza Station (1958), Endless Desire (1958), My Second Brother (1959), Pigs and Battleships (1961), The Insect Woman (1963), Intentions of Murder (1964), The Pornographers (1966), A Man Vanishes (1967), Profound Desires of the Gods (1968), History of Postwar Japan as Told by a Bar Hostess (1970), Karayuki-san, the Making of a Prostitute (1975), Vengeance Is Mine (1979), Why Not? (1981), The Ballad of Narayama (1983), Zegen (1987), Black Rain (1989), The Eel (1997), Dr. Akagi (1998), Warm Water Under a Red Bridge (2001), September 11 (2002)
Technical Specs
Format
35mm