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Endless Desire
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6.8Set 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.
Released: 1958-11-18101 minDir: Shōhei ImamuraDrama, Comedy
Stream on: Criterion Channel
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
Themes
- japanese noir
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- Duration
- 101
- FilmAffinity ID
- 905343
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- publication date
- 1958-01-01
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1950s crime comedy films1958 black comedy films1958 crime films1958 films1958 Japanese films1958 Japanese-language filmsFilms about psychoactive drugsFilms directed by Shohei ImamuraFilms scored by Toshiro MayuzumiJapanese black-and-white filmsJapanese crime comedy filmsNikkatsu filmsTemplate film date with 1 release date