Set in post-war Japan, a group of five, four men and one woman, gathers in the basement of a butcher shop to dig up a cache of morphine buried during the war. A grimly humorous tale of twisted relationships as one by one each of the group is eliminated.
Directed byShōhei Imamura
- Status
- Released
- Runtime
- 1h 41m
- Language
- JA
- Released
- November 18, 1958
Featuring
Cast & crew
Hiroyuki Nagato
Satoru
Misako Watanabe
Shima
Kō Nishimura
Pharmacist
Sanae Nakahara
Ryuko
Taiji Tonoyama
Ramen shop owner
Takeshi Katō
Brutal yakuza
Shoichi Ozawa
A teacher
Reiji Akitsu
Detective
Shinsuke Ashida
Nobuo Kawakami
- Directed by
- Shōhei Imamura
- Written by
- Shōhei ImamuraHisashi Yamanouchi
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