Pigs, Pimps & Prostitutes
Shôhei Imamura
Pigs, Pimps & Prostitutes [videorecording]= Shôhei Imamura - Japan Nikkatsu Janus Films 2009 - 3 videodisc (ca. 384 min.) sound, b&w. 4 3/4 in. - The Criterion Collection Vol. 471 Pigs, Pimps & Prostitutes .
In the 1960's, 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.
DVD video; Dolby Digital 1.0; monaural; NTSC; Regions 1; 2.35:1 as 16:9 widescreen.
Japanese audio. Optional English subtitles.
PN1997 / .P547 2009
Pigs, Pimps & Prostitutes [videorecording]= Shôhei Imamura - Japan Nikkatsu Janus Films 2009 - 3 videodisc (ca. 384 min.) sound, b&w. 4 3/4 in. - The Criterion Collection Vol. 471 Pigs, Pimps & Prostitutes .
In the 1960's, 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.
DVD video; Dolby Digital 1.0; monaural; NTSC; Regions 1; 2.35:1 as 16:9 widescreen.
Japanese audio. Optional English subtitles.
PN1997 / .P547 2009