Title doesn't lie - lots of pigs.

A slight weaker Imamura film for me but still a great work from Japanese cinema. It's a perfect postcard of the period it was made in - with Japan still under American occupation after WWII, and coping with the capitalist boom that was taking place and disturbing what it meant to be Japanese - following loners, crooks and working class women trying to make ends meet only to feel the worst brunt of it, through threads of a B-movie yakuza film and shot with considerable skill by Imamura.

Part critique of American influence in Japan, and part wild yakuza film. It's got kind of a B-movie vibe to it, lots of action and humor, but compelling drama as well. I think the message is handled too bluntly (and the business with the hogs somewhat confusing), but the craftsmanship makes up for it. There's some phenomenal camerawork, especially in the use of tracking shots and overhead shots. I've never seen guys get trampled by a pig stampede before.

Gloriously vicious.

Release the pigs or I will spray you all with bullets!