The young Shōhei Imamura began his apprenticeship under Yasujirō Ozu with this tender portrait of the happily unmarried Noriko (Setsuko Hara), whose unexpected response to mounting pressure to marry quietly unsettles three generations of her family.

The new offering from Oscar-winner Pawel Pawlikowski takes place in 1949, just as the novelist Thomas Mann returns to Germany from exile, having opposed Hitler’s regime.

A group of WWII veterans gather ten years on to recover a cache of morphine hidden during the final days of the war which is now worth millions. From this ‘B’ movie premise Imamura crafts an idiosyncratic study of post-war Japan as the gang's desperate attempts to retrieve the treasure are beset by a whole host of obstacles, not least their own increasingly venal amorality.

A story of two married couples – a laid-off worker and his spouse and a documentary filmmaker and her spouse – crossing paths to film a documentary and facing their different lives and hidden desires.