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Endless Desire (1958)

Directed by Shōhei Imamura

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.

Length 101 minutes

Actors

Hiroyuki Nagato | Misako Watanabe | Kô Nishimura | Sanae Nakahara | Taiji Tonoyama | Takeshi Katô | Shoichi Ozawa | Reiji Akitsu | Shinsuke Ashida | Nobuo Kawakami | Chieko Misaki | Ichirô Sugai | Kaku Takashina | Shuntaro Tamamura | Makiko Tsunoda | Shinichi Yanagisawa | Shizuko Kasagi | Kayo Matsuo | Tomiko Hattori