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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.

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