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Ôkami to Buta to Ningen

Ôkami to Buta to Ningen (1964)

Crime | 95 minutes
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Genre: Crime / Drama

Duration: 95 minuten

Alternative titles: Wolves, Pigs & Men / 狼と豚と人間

Country: Japan

Directed by: Kinji Fukasaku

Stars: Ken Takakura and Rentaro Mikuni

IMDb score: 7,3 (349)

Releasedate: 26 August 1964

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Ôkami to Buta to Ningen plot

"Do we stake our lives?"

Three brothers live in a slum on the edge of a bombed-out city. Bulldozers are busy preparing the rubble on the waste site for construction. The eldest brother is a loyal member of the city's yakuza. The middle one is a loner who has his own criminal business to get money. The somewhat simple youngest brother is a pig farmer and just keeps his pigs between the slums. When the middle one convinces the youngest to help him in criminal cases at the expense of the yakuza gang, a battle to the death begins between the brothers.

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Ken Takakura Ken Takakura

Jiro, the second brother

Rentaro Mikuni Rentaro Mikuni

Ichiro, The eldest brother

Kinya Kitaoji Kinya Kitaoji

Sabu, the third brother

Shinjirô Ehara Shinjirô Ehara

Mizohara

Sanae Nakahara Sanae Nakahara

Kyoko

Hiroko Shima Hiroko Shima

Mako

Jiro Okazaki Jiro Okazaki

Takeji

Shunji Kasuga Shunji Kasuga

Nishimura

Akikane Sawa Akikane Sawa

Iwasaki

Seiichi Shisui Seiichi Shisui

Akira

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29 August 2025 at 21:54

This crime film seems inspired by the French Nouvelle Vague and film noir, with its innovative camera angles, though this wasn't actually intentional. A lesser-known novel by Simenon, Les Frères Rico, forms the basis of the script. But it's a Japanese "new wave," meaning it's dirtier and more violent, especially when one of the brothers in the story and his companion resort to torture to find out where the other brother has hidden the loot. Underlying this is a story about escaping poverty and slums. One of the brothers has succeeded and is a top yakuza figure. For the other two, however, there seems to be no hope. The ending is surprising and can be seen as a moral twist. A fine film this time from Fukasaku.

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