Endless Desire (1958)
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.
Director:
Shōhei Imamura
Writers:
Shōhei Imamura, Hisashi Yamanouchi.
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Hiroyuki Nagato as Satoru |
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Misako Watanabe as Shima |
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Kō Nishimura as Pharmacist |
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Sanae Nakahara as Ryuko |
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Taiji Tonoyama as Ramen shop owner |
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Takeshi Katō as Brutal yakuza |
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Shoichi Ozawa as A teacher |
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Reiji Akitsu as Detective |
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Shinsuke Ashida as |
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Nobuo Kawakami as |
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Chieko Misaki as Kiyo |
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Ichirō Sugai as Kinzo Onoyu |
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Kaku Takashina as |
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Shuntaro Tamamura as |
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Makiko Tsunoda as |
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Shinichi Yanagisawa as |
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Shizuko Kasagi as (uncredited) |
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Kayo Matsuo as (uncredited) |
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Tomiko Hattori as (uncredited) |
| Directing | Shōhei Imamura | Director |
| Sound | Toshirō Mayuzumi | Original Music Composer |
| Camera | Shinsaku Himeda | Director of Photography |
| Editing | Mutsuo Tanji | Editor |
| Art | Kano Otsuka | Production Design |
| Art | Kimihiko Nakamura | Art Direction |
| Production | Hironobu Sakurai | Production Manager |
| Directing | Kirio Urayama | Assistant Director |
| Sound | Norio Iwakura | Sound |
| Writing | Shinji Fujiwara | Novel |
| Writing | Shōhei Imamura | Screenplay |
| Lighting | Yasuo Iwaki | Lighting Director |
| Directing | Akane Shiratori | Script Supervisor |
| Writing | Hisashi Yamanouchi | Screenplay |
