Watch for FREE. With Hiroyuki Nagato, Jitsuko Yoshimura, Masao Mishima, Tetsurô Tanba. pigs and battleships Top 10 Lists of Movies Going Back in Time. Watch for FREE. An icon used to represent a menu that can be toggled by interacting with this icon. First Man (Chazelle) 04. Sunday. Directed by Shôhei Imamura. This dazzling, unruly portrait of postwar Japan details, with escalating absurdity, the desperate power struggles between small-time gangsters in the (1961) A Japanese junkman's son sees the Yakuza as his ticket out of the slums. The Green Fog (Maddin & Johnson) 07. In addition to Mike Pickering, Johnny Marr, Vini Reilly, and Simon Topping all contribute to "Pigs + Battleships", but the chemistry just isn't there. Quando Quango weren't bad at all. Pigs and Battleships is a turning point in Imamura's career - from now on, his films all have that characteristic style of his. Rent/Buy. Original Title: 豚と軍艦. Pigs And Battleships 1961 Shohei Imamura. 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