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Name: Pigs and Battleships / Intentions of Murder
Genre: Action/Adventure,Drama

PIGS AND BATTLESHIPS (BUTA TO GUNKAN), 1961, Janus Films, 108 min. Dir. Shohei Imamura. Slum waif Jitsuko Yoshimura, her wannabe gangster boyfriend Hiroyuki Nagato, and an ucler-plagued gang boss Tetsuro Tanba are involved in a plot to sell pigs on the post-WWII black market of their shantytown, dockside inferno. The nearby U.S. military base provides fertile soil for all varieties of crime, including prostitution, narcotics, protection rackets, gambling and black market goods. INTENTIONS OF MURDER (AKAI SATSUI), 1964, Janus Films, 150 min. Dir. Shohei Imamura. Masumi Harukawa is Sadako, a downtrodden housewife, abused by her husband (Ko Nishimura) and mother-in-law. After being raped by a strange intruder (Shigeru Tsuyuguchi), she decides to kill herself. But the rapist returns, expressing his love and, to her own surprise, Sadako begins a passionate affair with her anguished attacker. The tryst awakens Sadako’s awareness of her own power as a woman.

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What is Pigs and Battleships / Intentions of Murder about?: PIGS AND BATTLESHIPS (BUTA TO GUNKAN), 1961, Janus Films, 108 min. Dir. Shohei Imamura. Slum waif Jitsuko Yoshimura, her wannabe gangster boyfriend Hiroyuki Nagato, and an ucler-plagued gang boss Tetsuro Tanba are involved in a plot to sell pigs on the post-WWII black market of their shantytown, dockside inferno. The nearby U.S. military base provides fertile soil for all varieties of crime, including prostitution, narcotics, protection rackets, gambling and black market goods.
INTENTIONS OF MURDER (AKAI SATSUI), 1964, Janus Films, 150 min. Dir. Shohei Imamura. Masumi Harukawa is Sadako, a downtrodden housewife, abused by her husband (Ko Nishimura) and mother-in-law. After being raped by a strange intruder (Shigeru Tsuyuguchi), she decides to kill herself. But the rapist returns, expressing his love and, to her own surprise, Sadako begins a passionate affair with her anguished attacker. The tryst awakens Sadako’s awareness of her own power as a woman.