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

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