Endless Desire

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.

Directed by Shōhei Imamura

Top cast

Hiroyuki Nagato

Satoru

Misako Watanabe

Shima

Kō Nishimura

Pharmacist

Sanae Nakahara

Ryuko

Taiji Tonoyama

Ramen shop owner

Takeshi Katō

Brutal yakuza

Shoichi Ozawa

A teacher

R

Reiji Akitsu

Detective

Shinsuke Ashida

Nobuo Kawakami

Chieko Misaki

Kiyo

Ichirō Sugai

Kinzo Onoyu

Kaku Takashina

S

Shuntaro Tamamura

M

Makiko Tsunoda

Shinichi Yanagisawa

Shizuko Kasagi

(uncredited)

Kayo Matsuo

(uncredited)

Tomiko Hattori

(uncredited)

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