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Pigs, Pimps, And Prostitutes: 3 Films By Shohei Imamura: Pigs And Battleships / The Insect Woman / Intentions Of Murder

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Rating: R
Format: DVD
Release Date: 19-MAY-2009
Runtime: 461

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Product Code: 715515046015

Description

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.

Features

Set includes Pigs and Battleships, The Insect Woman, and Intentions of Murder
New, restored high-definition digital transfers
Conversations between Shohei Imamura and critic Tadao Sato about The Insect Woman and Intentions of Murder
�Imamura, the Free Thinker,� a 1995 episode of the French television series Cin�ma de notre temps
Interviews with renowned critic and historian Tony Rayns on all three films
New and improved English subtitle translations
PLUS: Booklets featuring essays by film critics Audie Bock, Dennis Lim, and James Quandt