Insect Woman, The
Insect Woman, The
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A collection of early '60s films from Shohei Imamura, "Japan's incarnation of Bunuel, omnisciently satiric and utterly cynical" (Michael Atkinson, The Boston Phoenix). The satirical drama Pigs and Battleships (Buta t o Gunkan, 1961, 108 mins.) depicts lower class life around the American naval base at Yokosuka. With no prospects, young Hiroyuki Nagato becomes a pimp in training under the local yakuza, and happily feeds slop from the base to his boss' pigs. His girlfriend (Jitsuko Yoshimura) implores him to go straight, but he's too far gone down the wrong path. Taken one step further, The Insect Woman (Nippon konchuki, 1963, 123 mins.) is a dark and often humorous story of sexual exploitation. One of Japan's finest actresses, Sachiko Hidari, plays an impoverished country girl who escapes a brutal existence, which includes rape and incest, by fleeing to Tokyo. She proves to be an amoral survivor who fights her way to success as a madam. Similarly, the stylized drama Intentions of Murder (Akai Satsui, 1964, 150 mins.) concerns another heroine of ill-repute. Sadako (Masumi Harukawa), a dome stic slave, is raped while her husband is away. Instead of reporting the crime, the incident awakens a dual desire to murder and run away with her attacker. In Shohei Imamura---Japan---1961-1964---462 mins.

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