Endless Desire

Name: Endless Desire
Director: Shōhei Imamura
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Released: 1958
Duration: 101 min
Cast: Hiroyuki Nagato, Misako Watanabe, Kō Nishimura, Sanae Nakahara, Taiji Tonoyama

1h 41m1958

About this film

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.

Hiroyuki NagatoSatoru
Misako WatanabeShima
Kō NishimuraPharmacist
Sanae NakaharaRyuko
Taiji TonoyamaRamen shop owner
Takeshi KatōBrutal yakuza

Director: Shōhei Imamura
Screenplay: Shōhei Imamura, Hisashi Yamanouchi
Genres: Drama, Comedy

Later dates

Institute of Contemporary ArtsLondonfrom Sat 24 Oct

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