Friday, January 17, 2014, 6:30 PM – 8:15 PM
Asia Society
725 Park Avenue (at East 70 Street), New York, NY
A decade after Japan’s WWII surrender, a group of seedy characters gather to retrieve a valuable cache of morphine buried during the war. To reach the treasure now located underneath a butcher’s shop, the group must dig an underground tunnel from a nearby house. While digging is in progress, group members scheme against each other. A few irritating locals and a planned slum demolition further threaten to derail the project. This dark comedy, Imamura’s third feature made in his directorial debut year, already displays the auteur’s penchant for observing basic instincts in the messy underworld. Print courtesy of Japan Foundation.
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