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Janet Panabaker Chronicle Specia! As part of its continuing Japa nese Cinema series, the Princess Cinema ran Shohei Imamura‘s Gripping Japanese series at the Princess 1961 black comedy Pigs and Battleships Monday. The series, which featured The Makioka Sisters last week, runs through the month of March. Set in the city of Yokosuka, a port town which is home to the largest U.S. naval base in the area, Pigs and Battleships telis the comingâ€"ofâ€"age tale of a teeâ€" naged boy name Kinta (Hiroyuk: Nagato), and his girl Haruko (Jitsuko Yoshimura), against the background of the post World War Il "Westernization" of Jaâ€" _ The story is no piece of Japaâ€" nese Disney. Director Imamura states that he wished "to make a PAGE 32 â€" WATERLOO CHRONICLE, WEDNESDAY MARCH 16 No Disney World The final} adventure in the UW Arts Centre Child‘s Escape series is Jest In Time Theatre. a chilâ€" dren‘s entertainment troupe speâ€" cializing in "physical theatre." Established in 1983. Jest In Time Theatre is an exciting fiveâ€" member touring company based in Halifax. Nova Scotia. Its inspi ration comes from mime. vaudeâ€" ville and silent film comedy. The company combines traditional mime techniques with voice. actâ€" ing, and movement. The result is an original style of physical theatre which appeals to audiâ€" ences of all ages The sketches transcend the everyday world and leap into the absurd. ranging from the hilarious and lightâ€" hearted to the thoughtâ€"provoking. Jest In Time will be performing two shows at UW Humanities Theatre Saturday, March 26 at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m Tickets for Jest In Time are available from the Humanities Theatre Box Office (885â€"4280), for adults, $6, and for children and seniors $4 The five member troupe in cludes Frans Rinbout. Mary Elien Maclean, Sherryâ€"Lee Huntâ€" er. Christian Murray and Shelley Wallace. Jest In Time receives artistic direction from mime masâ€" ter Tonvy Montanaro BOB OBERMOLTZER SALES CONSULTANT A confidential and professional service of listing and selling businesses Call the man who has sold five of his own. Child‘s Escape series Phone 893â€"5009 ANYTIME FRANK LIPNICKI worst" of those Japanese destroyâ€" ed by postâ€"war changes and American â€" ‘occupation‘ "being trampled under the feet of the filthy animals that stand as a metaphor for them."‘ s He succeeds admirably. The youth Kinta chooses to become a yaruka (gangster) canâ€" didate. rather than working in a factory as his girlfriend and faâ€" ther wish, and through his naivete, laziness and greed ends up chasing pigs and bonuses through the sordid bars and brothels of a town determined to make the most of the American dollar. In stark black and white, Imaâ€" mura‘s camera follows an assortâ€" ment of young and old Japanese hoodlums and their gangster bosâ€" ses, and the equally culpable American Gls, through a someâ€" times brutal, sometimes comic nightmare. He often uses indirect camera angles and fast cuts, juxtaposed with sultry ‘beat‘ musâ€" ic. to increase the film‘s nightâ€" marish, yet unhappily real, atâ€" mosphere. $25 Irony prevails, and Imamura MAY COURT 714 Belmont Ave. W., Kitchener 745â€"4412 Nearly New Shop Now accepting on consignment: Better Quality Women‘s and Children‘s Spring Fashions Urgently needed: Infants‘ to Children‘s Size 14 Tues., Wed., Fri. & Sat. 10â€"4 Thurs. 10â€"7 eye examinations arranged 11 ERB ST. E. WATERLOO 746â€"4811 a complete set of KR eyeglasses OFF . 31/88 7245 sight tary marches follow scenes of violence or squalor. A gang lieutenant serves his mates a pig fed on the corpse of a murder victim they are desperately tryâ€" ing to hide. A boy reads of the improvements and failures in Japan since the war while his mother tries to convince his sister to become the kept woman of a GL As American planes fly overâ€" head, crowds of Japanése spectaâ€" tors, so caught up in their greed that, as Kikuo states, they can‘t see anymore what is good for them, agree with a boy who cries, "Isn‘t America great?" Kinta, like everyone else, is blinded by a fast buck and dreams of Americanâ€"like success. He tells his girl Haruko, "when I get married I‘ll buy a good suit and be a rock band manager." Haruko, in fact, is one of the few people who can see what‘s hapâ€" pening. She continues to fight, after an abortion and an attack by three Gls, to get away from Yokosuka for good. She even manages to convince Kinta that use of sound as well as independent Optician Thomas J. D‘Arcy In the closing scene of the film, while crowds of girls in Western dress cheer the arrival of another this is the best thing to do, but he is struck down by his desire for one more chance at his "bonus," and in another moment of irony we see his corpse thrown into a truck full of the dead pigs which were to earn him his fortune. Americam‘ aircraft carrier, Imâ€" amura discloses the real heroine; to the beat. of a military march, Haruko pushes past the crowd and walks in the opposite direcâ€" tion towards the train station, in effect turning her back on the evils and the "quick money‘ A dramatic monologue drawn from the Gospel of Mark. Dennis Dewey is pastor of First Presbyterian Church, Utica, New York. He is a dramatist and member of the Network of Biblical Storytellers International. The drama makes use of 85% of Mark‘s text. In the last few years, Dennis has given nearly 30 performances in churches in New York, California and Canada. 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