Endless Desire (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.

Released: Nov 18, 1958

Runtime: 101 minutes

Genre: Drama

Stars: Hiroyuki Nagato, Misako Watanabe, Kō Nishimura, Sanae Nakahara, Taiji Tonoyama, Takeshi Katō

Crew: Shōhei Imamura (Director), Shinsaku Himeda (Director of Photography), Mutsuo Tanji (Editor), Toshirō Mayuzumi (Original Music Composer), Norio Iwakura (Sound), Hironobu Sakurai (Production Manager)