Endless Desire

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Endless Desire (1958)

Directed by Shōhei Imamura

Drama, Comedy · 1h 41m

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.

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Cast

Hiroyuki Nagato Satoru Misako Watanabe Shima Kō Nishimura Pharmacist Sanae Nakahara Ryuko Taiji Tonoyama Ramen shop owner Takeshi Katō Brutal yakuza Shoichi Ozawa A teacher
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Reiji Akitsu Detective Shinsuke Ashida Nobuo Kawakami Chieko Misaki Kiyo Ichirō Sugai Kinzo Onoyu

Crew

Director
Shōhei Imamura
Screenplay
Shōhei Imamura, Hisashi Yamanouchi
Novel
Shinji Fujiwara
Director of Photography
Shinsaku Himeda
Original Music Composer
Toshirō Mayuzumi
Editor
Mutsuo Tanji

Details

Original title
果しなき欲望
Release date
1958-11-18
Runtime
1h 41m
Genres
Drama, Comedy
Original language
JA
Spoken languages
Japanese
Countries
Japan
Production
Nikkatsu Corporation