The wonderfully bizarre title of Imamura’s breakthrough film is a jab at both the corruption of modern Japan and its American occupiers. Mixing dark comedy with melodramatic pathos, this wildly (purposefully?) uneven film charts the lives of a young couple in a seedy port town as they negotiate their future together amid crime and chaos. Along the way Imamura displays in nascent form the anti-establishment themes and conflicted understanding of outsiders that would come to define his work for the next three decades. (DVD)