Buta to gunkan (1961)

English Title: Pigs and Battleships
Directed by: Shôhei Imamura

Synopsis: Kinta (Hiroyuki Nagato) is a young gang member who is put in charge of a pig farm for a small gang of Yakuza that is slowly imploding.

Purr Blur: In one scene Kinta is walking home after losing at cards. A small white Japanese Bobtail cat with black markings is walking down the street then turns a corner.

Pigs and Battleships - white and back Japanese bobtail cat walking in alley
Pigs and Battleships - white and back Japanese bobtail cat walking in alley

Final Mewsings: The Yakuza should have raised kittens instead of pigs!

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