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.

Director: Shōhei Imamura

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

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Reiji Akitsu

Detective

Shinsuke Ashida

Nobuo Kawakami