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Pigs, Pimps & Prostitutes: 3 Films by Shohei Imamura (1961-1964) [The Criterion Collection ##471, 472, 473, 474] [Re-UP]

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Pigs, Pimps & Prostitutes: 3 Films by Shohei Imamura (1961-1964) [The Criterion Collection ##471, 472, 473, 474] [Re-UP]

Pigs, Pimps & Prostitutes (1961-1964)
3 Films by Shohei Imamura
3xDVD9 | VIDEO_TS | NTSC 16:9 | 381 mins | 7,48 Gb + 7,21 Gb + 7,26 Gb
Audio: Japanese AC3 1.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subtitles: English
Genre: Drama, Crime, Comedy | The Criterion Collection #471

In the 1960s, Japanese filmmakers responded to a stale studio system by looking for fresh ways to tell stories, and Shohei Imamura was one of the leading figures of this new wave. With the three films in this set—Pigs and Battleships, The Insect Woman, and Intentions of Murder—Imamura truly emerged as an auteur, bringing to his national cinema an anthropological eye and a previously unseen taste for the irreverent. Claiming his interests lay in “the relationship of the lower part of the human body and the lower part of the social structure,” Imamura dotted the decade with earthy, juicy, idiosyncratic films featuring persevering, willful heroines. His remains a unique cinematic voice.

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The three films Imamura made prior to the 1960s were light and unsatisfying projects for the director. With 1961's Pigs and Battleships, he radically changed his style, creating a film that was hardboiled, with a sharp social commentary. In particular, Imamura was harshly critical of both Japanese dependency and American dominance. At the time the film was made, the Japanese government had just extended the American occupation, causing widespread public outrage.

What's initially most surprising is how Pigs and Battleships doesn't seem dated. The movie is nearly fifty years old, was made before the American cinematic revolution of 1967, and yet sexuality and crime are presented with an unflinching starkness you rarely see in a black-and-white movie. For example, Haruko and her family (and Kinta) openly discuss the option of prostitution, with some surprising practical considerations.

Despite the subject matter, the film does have humor, and is touching at times. Kinta—who is no saint himself—struggles to resist the Yakuza's dark side, and is constantly repulsed by the Americans who not only degrade his country, but also his girlfriend. This is an intriguing portrait of a country under occupation, and it's all the more compelling since Americans, who are so often seen as heroic occupiers—at least in their own films—play brutal antagonists here. Though the portrayal of American soldiers is crude, the points the film makes are still salient, and, frankly, Imamura's most barbed commentary is for his own people.

The title of The Insect Woman refers to how Imamura sees the life for Japanese women in the first half of the twentieth century. Indeed, Tome's life in the film often does mirror the degradation and hopelessness of a beetle. Like Pigs and Battleships, The Insect Woman has modern sensibilities, especially in terms of the female experience. Also like Pigs and Battleships, a female character struggles with the decision of whether to become a prostitute to save herself from penury. However, Tome is a more desperate—and less proud—woman than Haruko, and she is a fascinating character, especially considering her time and place.

Though Japanese women are often considered—and portrayed—as meek and silently suffering, Imamura rails against that stereotype in this film, with a character who is long suffering, but constantly struggling to rise above her conditions. In fact, Tome must ultimately be considered stronger than any of her male counterparts. She is a flawed but fascinating and inspiring character, and is the centerpiece of a great film.

Intentions of Murder is the longest of the three films, the most ambitious in style, and the most difficult to unravel. This movie—like the previous two—explores a woman's changing place in modern Japan, but it's difficult to find any straightforward interpretation here. This makes it both frustrating and intriguing.

Here Imamura masterfully depicts the onerous life of a dimwitted, staid, homely woman, but the lengths she goes to escape that life are troublesome (unfortunately, I have to be vague to avoid revealing a vital plot point). In one sense, Intentions of Murder is a powerful message about the human instinct to escape stifling existence, but at the same time, the path Sadako chooses also seems so contrary to human nature that I had trouble taking it on face value. While the film has an interesting message about women in Japan—or any misogynistic society—Imamura is too talented a storyteller to create what is essentially a "message" movie. Also, the two-and-a-half hour running time bloats the story with dream sequences and flashbacks that are far from essential. This is a bold and intriguing film, but the most uneven of the three.

As always, Criterion has done an outstanding job with this release. All three of this films included in Pimps, Pigs & Prostitutes are presented in gorgeous black-and-white. There are a couple scenes when the blacks are a little too saturated, but those often seem to be the intention of the director, who enjoys enveloping his characters in darkness. For Japanese films that are nearly fifty years old, these are absolutely pristine.

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Pigs, Pimps & Prostitutes: 3 Films by Shohei Imamura (1961-1964) [The Criterion Collection ##471, 472, 473, 474] [Re-UP]
(3240 x 2175)

Pigs and Battleships (1961)
DVD9 | VIDEO_TS | NTSC 16:9 | 01:48:13 | 7,48 Gb
Audio: Japanese AC3 1.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subtitles: English
Genre: Drama, Crime, Comedy | The Criterion Collection #472

Pigs and Battleships is the story of Kinta (Hiroyuki Nagato), a young man torn between his ties to the Yakuza (Japanese mafia) and the love of a good woman, Haruko (Jitsuko Yoshimura). The Yakuza offers material benefits, but the disreputable and dangerous lifestyle is a deal-breaker for Haruko, who would be happy with the money that comes from a factory job. Further complicating things is the American military, which occupies Japan. American soldiers always seem to be in search of a good time, and they've taken a particular interest in Haruko.



Pigs, Pimps & Prostitutes: 3 Films by Shohei Imamura (1961-1964) [The Criterion Collection ##471, 472, 473, 474] [Re-UP]

Pigs, Pimps & Prostitutes: 3 Films by Shohei Imamura (1961-1964) [The Criterion Collection ##471, 472, 473, 474] [Re-UP]

Disc Features:
- New, restored high-definition digital transfer
- “Imamura: the Freethinker,” a 1995 episode of the French television series Cinéma de notre temps
- Interview with critic and historian Tony Rayns
- New and improved English subtitle translations
Pigs, Pimps & Prostitutes: 3 Films by Shohei Imamura (1961-1964) [The Criterion Collection ##471, 472, 473, 474] [Re-UP]


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Pigs, Pimps & Prostitutes: 3 Films by Shohei Imamura (1961-1964) [The Criterion Collection ##471, 472, 473, 474] [Re-UP]
(3240 x 2175)

The Insect Woman (1963)
DVD9 | VIDEO_TS | NTSC 16:9 | 02:03:12 | 7,21 Gb
Audio: Japanese AC3 1.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subtitles: English
Genre: Drama | The Criterion Collection #473

The Insect Woman is the story of Tome (Sachiko Hidari), a girl who comes from a dysfunctional family and has almost nothing but bad luck. The films spans several decades (1910s up to the 1960s), as Tome tries to escape her lower-class origins through work in a factory, as a nanny, a maid, and a prostitute. Further complicating her life is a traumatic relationship with her mentally challenged stepfather, who is kindly but sexually abusive.



Pigs, Pimps & Prostitutes: 3 Films by Shohei Imamura (1961-1964) [The Criterion Collection ##471, 472, 473, 474] [Re-UP]

Pigs, Pimps & Prostitutes: 3 Films by Shohei Imamura (1961-1964) [The Criterion Collection ##471, 472, 473, 474] [Re-UP]

Disc Features:
- New, restored high-definition digital transfer
- Conversation between Shohei Imamura and critic Tadao Sato about the film
- Interview with critic and historian Tony Rayns
- New and improved English subtitle translation
Pigs, Pimps & Prostitutes: 3 Films by Shohei Imamura (1961-1964) [The Criterion Collection ##471, 472, 473, 474] [Re-UP]


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Pigs, Pimps & Prostitutes: 3 Films by Shohei Imamura (1961-1964) [The Criterion Collection ##471, 472, 473, 474] [Re-UP]
(3240 x 2175)

Intentions of Murder (1964)
DVD9 | VIDEO_TS | NTSC 16:9 | 02:30:07 | 7,26 Gb
Audio: Japanese AC3 1.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subtitles: English
Genre: Drama | The Criterion Collection #474

Intentions of Murder is the story of Sadako (Masumi Harukawa), a frumpy lower-class housewife. Sadako lives in a shabby home with her cold, officious husband and his son from another marriage. One day, while her husband is away, an intruder breaks into her home and rapes her. As horrific as this experience is, in the context of her drab and thankless existence, it doesn't seem so horrible. In fact, when the intruder returns, Sadako finds the violation, and the man's desire for her, not entirely unwelcome.



Pigs, Pimps & Prostitutes: 3 Films by Shohei Imamura (1961-1964) [The Criterion Collection ##471, 472, 473, 474] [Re-UP]

Pigs, Pimps & Prostitutes: 3 Films by Shohei Imamura (1961-1964) [The Criterion Collection ##471, 472, 473, 474] [Re-UP]

Disc Features:
- New, restored high-definition digital transfer
- Conversation between Shohei Imamura and critic Tadao Sato about the film
- Interview with critic and historian Tony Rayns
- New and improved English subtitle translations
Pigs, Pimps & Prostitutes: 3 Films by Shohei Imamura (1961-1964) [The Criterion Collection ##471, 472, 473, 474] [Re-UP]


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Pigs, Pimps, and Prostitutes: 3 Films by Shohei Imamura is a wonderful survey of an exceptional and singular talent. As the title might suggest, Shohei Imamura had his own particular obsessions, and he sifts through them in these creative and masterful films. All three movies feature complex heroines doing battle with an indifferent society, and are full of dark humor and perverse detail. If you like one, you'll like all three, and the well-chosen supplements only serve to enhance the boxed set. Highly Recommended.
Excerpt from Jamie S. Rich's Review on DVD Talk

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