Sunday | December 9, 2007 9:00 pm

Endless Desire
(Hateshi naki yokubo)

Screening on Film

Directed by Shohei Imamura.
With Hiroyuki Nagato, Sanea Nakahara, Ko Nishimura.
Japan, 1958, 35mm, color, 100 min.
Japanese with English subtitles.
Print source: Japan Foundation

On the tenth anniversary of Japan's WWII surrender, a motley group of five gathers in the basement of a butcher shop to dig up a cache of morphine buried during the war. Imamura initiates a grimly humorous tale of twisted relationships, prefiguring similar entanglements to come in his later films.

December 1 – 14, 2007

Vanishing Points: The Films of Shohei Imamura

January 17–February 28

From the Collection: Antonioni / Bertolucci / Olmi

January 24

Steve McQueen’s Occupied City

February 2–April 27

The Complete Stanley Kubrick

February 13–23

Alain Kassanda,
2026 McMillan-Stewart Fellow