Drama ·Comedy · Japan · 1958 · 1h 41m

Endless Desire

果しなき欲望

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Director
Shōhei Imamura
Cast
Hiroyuki Nagato as Satoru Misako Watanabe as Shima Kō Nishimura as Pharmacist Sanae Nakahara as Ryuko Taiji Tonoyama as Ramen shop owner Takeshi Katō as Brutal yakuza
Crew
Shinsaku Himeda — Director of Photography Mutsuo Tanji — Editor Toshirō Mayuzumi — Original Music Composer Shōhei Imamura — Screenplay Hisashi Yamanouchi — Screenplay Shinji Fujiwara — Novel
Synopsis

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.

Mood & Themes
japanese noir
Key Collaborators
Shōhei Imamura Director Shinsaku Himeda Director of Photography Mutsuo Tanji Editor Toshirō Mayuzumi Original Music Composer Shōhei Imamura Screenplay Hisashi Yamanouchi Screenplay Shinji Fujiwara Novel Kano Otsuka Production Design
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