Endless Desire
(Hateshi naki yokubo)
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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
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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