Drama Comedy
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 by
Shōhei Imamura
Kō Nishimura
Pharmacist
Hiroyuki Nagato
Satoru
Kayo Matsuo
(uncredited)
Sanae Nakahara
Ryuko
Chieko Misaki
Kiyo
Takeshi Katō
Brutal yakuza
Taiji Tonoyama
Ramen shop owner
Kaku Takashina
Shinsuke Ashida
Misako Watanabe
Shima
Ichirō Sugai
Kinzo Onoyu
Shoichi Ozawa
A teacher
Nobuo Kawakami
Shizuko Kasagi
(uncredited)
Shinichi Yanagisawa
Reiji Akitsu
Detective
Shuntaro Tamamura
Makiko Tsunoda
Tomiko Hattori
(uncredited)

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