High and Low
1963
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.
Shōhei Imamura
Brutal yakuza
Shima
Satoru
Ramen shop owner
Ryuko
Pharmacist
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