Nikkatsu
Directed by Shohei Imamura
My rating: 3 stars out of 4
IMDb Wikipedia
(DVD, Criterion Collection)
A low ranking Japanese gangster runs a pig farm while hustling girls in the streets of a large city. His girlfriend tries but fails to set him straight, and eventually becomes a prostitute herself. He also has to deal with a dead body and take the fall for his boss, who may or may not be dying. It all comes falling down in a chaotic, and highly symbolic, ending in which the pigs run freely in the streets. Stinging rebuke of the American presence in Japan after the end of the war. However, Imamura seems more interested in pushing censorship boundaries, with frequent interludes of sex and violence set among the lowlife of Japanese society.
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