Endless Desire (1958)
果しなき欲望
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.
- Date of release
- 1958-11-18
- TMDB
- 6.8 / 10 (14)
- Runtime
- 1h 41m
- Genres
- Drama, Comedy
- Director
- Shōhei Imamura
Casting
- 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
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