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Endless Desire
Film / 1958

Endless Desire

Directed by Shōhei Imamura
DramaComedy

★ 6.8/10Audience rating

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.

The story

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.

Cast

Hiroyuki NagatoSatoru Misako WatanabeShima Kō NishimuraPharmacist Sanae NakaharaRyuko Taiji TonoyamaRamen shop owner Takeshi KatōBrutal yakuza Shoichi OzawaA teacher Reiji AkitsuDetective Shinsuke Ashida Nobuo Kawakami Chieko MisakiKiyo Ichirō SugaiKinzo Onoyu
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Kaku Takashina Shuntaro Tamamura Makiko Tsunoda Shinichi Yanagisawa Shizuko Kasagi(uncredited) Kayo Matsuo(uncredited) Tomiko Hattori(uncredited)

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