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Pigs and Battleships

Pigs and Battleships (Buta to gunkan). Shôhei Imamura, 1961.

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Edition screened: Criterion DVD #472 included in box set #471 Pigs, Pimps and Prostitues: 3 Films by Shôei Imamura, released 2009. Japanese language with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 108 minutes.


Summary: General disregard for animals.


Details:

1) An officer opens a hessian bag and we see two dead dogs inside, 33:13-33:17.

2) A whole pig is served for dinner around the 49 minute mark.

3) We see what appears to be a dead pig on the back of a mini truck, 1:43:05.

4) Many pigs run through the street toward the film’s end and there is a scene in which humans are squishing on top of a few pigs; neither of these scenes showing injury to the pigs.