Endless Desire

Endless Desire

101 mins | Drama | Nov. 18, 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.

Endless Desire

101 mins | Drama | Nov. 18, 1958

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.
IMDb rating 7.2
Producers Nikkatsu Corporation
Original title 果しなき欲望
Directors Akane Shiratori, Kirio Urayama, Shôhei Imamura
Writers Hisashi Yamanouchi, Shinji Fujiwara, Shôhei Imamura

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

Shoichi Ozawa

as A teacher

Reiji Akitsu

as Detective

Chieko Misaki

as Kiyo

Ichirō Sugai

as Kinzo Onoyu

Shizuko Kasagi

as (uncredited)

Kayo Matsuo

as (uncredited)

Tomiko Hattori

as (uncredited)