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

July 5–November 3

Floating Clouds… The Cinema of Naruse Mikio

July 12–August 11

Karpo Godina – Frames for Living

August 15–November 9

The Seasons of Hong Sangsoo Part I, Summer & Fall

September 1–October 19

Small Axe by Steve McQueen 2025-2026 Norton Professor of Poetry

September 12–December 1

Gore Vidal Goes to the Movies

September 13–December 13

New Dog, New Tricks: Youth in Cinema

October 3–27

A Terra! The Cinema of Marta Mateus

November 10–24

Jordan Belson by Raymond Foye