Directed by Shohei Imamura
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Hulu)
A man returns to his Japanese homeland after being shipwrecked and spending several years in America. His wife works in a carnival sideshow as a "blow girl", patrons pay to literally blow on her through straws, with a little extra paid work on the side afterwards. She has also taken up with a local gangster whose thugs control the town. He still loves his wife and they continue a very rocky relationship. He tries to convince her to return to America but she refuses. He becomes the unlikely leader of a peasant revolution that takes up much of the running time. Long, boring story, laced with explicit sex and violence, with no one to root for other than a bunch of drunken revolutionaries parading through the street yelling, "Why Not?".
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