DramaComedy
Endless Desire
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.
Directed by Shōhei Imamura
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User score
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Status
Released
Released
November 18, 1958
Runtime
1h 41m
Language
Japanese
Top cast
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
Kaku Takashina
Shuntaro Tamamura
Makiko Tsunoda
Shinichi Yanagisawa
Shizuko Kasagi
(uncredited)
Kayo Matsuo
(uncredited)
Tomiko Hattori
(uncredited)
