Film
Endless Desire
1958 · 1h 41m · Drama · Comedy
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- 7.2
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Overview
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
Reiji Akitsu
Detective
Shinsuke Ashida
Nobuo Kawakami
Chieko Misaki
Kiyo
Ichirō Sugai
Kinzo Onoyu
Kaku Takashina
Shuntaro Tamamura
Makiko Tsunoda
Shinichi Yanagisawa
Crew
- Shōhei ImamuraDirector · Screenplay
- Hisashi YamanouchiScreenplay
- Shinji FujiwaraNovel
- Shinsaku HimedaDirector of Photography
- Toshirō MayuzumiOriginal Music Composer
- Mutsuo TanjiEditor
Media
Details
- Release date
- November 18, 1958
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- Japanese
- Runtime
- 1h 41m
- Genres
- Drama, Comedy
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