Film Screening: Pigs and Battleships (Shōhei Imamura • 1961)

Join Canterbury Film Society for our Monday night screening of Pigs and Battleships (Shōhei Imamura • 1961 • 108 mins • Japan • M)

“This wonderfully unglamorous, breathtakingly sarcastic yakuza movie is set in the port of Yokosuka, which is dominated by the US Navy battleships moored in the harbour... Through black market deals with the Americans the gang of which our ne’er-do-well hero Kinta (Hiroyuki Nagato) is a junior member has got a corner in the local pork trade; Kinta gets to run the pig farm. But in the brutal struggle for survival, in which everyone prostitutes him- or herself and self-destructiveness runs rife, the not very bright Kinta’s love for the beautiful Haruko (Jitsuko Yoshimura) is endangered in all sorts of ways. Filmed in black-and-white Nikkatsuscope, this riotous gangster black farce is packed with unforgettable scenes.” The Telegraph

The Canterbury Film Society offers weekly screenings of top-quality films – arthouse, classic, cult, documentary, world cinema and more – on the big screen. We screen on Monday night at 7.30pm, doors open 7.00pm with drinks and home-baked food for purchase.

This is a Film Society Members Only screening - but new members are warmly welcome. Go to www.canterburyfilmsociety.org.nz to see membership options (including 3-film Flexipasses for $40, as well as Half Year and Full Membership). Join and pay online, or bring along cash (eftpos not available) and sign up at the membership table before the film.

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