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/10
Endless Desire
Dir. Shōhei Imamura
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Endless Desire
Drama
Comedy
Original title: 果しなき欲望
Director
Shōhei Imamura
Screenplay
Shōhei Imamura, Hisashi Yamanouchi
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.
Release
Nov 18, 1958
Budget
—
Country
Japan
Revenue
—
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
Shinsuke Ashida
Nobuo Kawakami
Chieko Misaki
Kiyo
Ichirō Sugai
Kinzo Onoyu
Kaku Takashina
Shinichi Yanagisawa
Shizuko Kasagi
(uncredited)
Kayo Matsuo
(uncredited)
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