Endless Desire

Nov 18, 1958

1h 41m

★ 6.5

Overview

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.

Genres

Drama

Comedy

Production Companies

Nikkatsu Corporation

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Cast

Satoru

Hiroyuki Nagato

Shima

Misako Watanabe

Pharmacist

Kō Nishimura

Ryuko

Sanae Nakahara

Ramen shop owner

Taiji Tonoyama

Brutal yakuza

Takeshi Katō

A teacher

Shoichi Ozawa

Detective

Reiji Akitsu

Shinsuke Ashida

Nobuo Kawakami

Kiyo

Chieko Misaki

Kinzo Onoyu

Ichirō Sugai

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