Released:
1958-11-18

Overview:
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.

Director:
Shōhei Imamura

Runtime:
1h 41min

Genre:
Drama

• Cast:
• 
  Hiroyuki Nagato
  as
  Satoru
• 
  Misako Watanabe
  as
  Shima
• 
  Kō Nishimura
  as
  Pharmacist
• 
  Sanae Nakahara
  as
  Ryuko
• 
  Taiji Tonoyama
  as
  Ramen shop owner