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

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