ENDLESS DESIRE (1958)

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Endless Desire
Drama
November 18, 1958
Japanese
1h 41m
Japan
Nikkatsu Corporation
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 & Characters
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
Chieko Misaki
Kiyo
Ichirō Sugai
Kinzo Onoyu
Shizuko Kasagi
(uncredited)
Kayo Matsuo
(uncredited)
Tomiko Hattori
(uncredited)
Crew
Shōhei Imamura
Director
Shinji Fujiwara
Novel
Shōhei Imamura
Screenplay
Hisashi Yamanouchi
Screenplay
Toshirō Mayuzumi
Original Music Composer
Shinsaku Himeda
Director of Photography