Overview
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.
Fun facts
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Setting
Set in Japan
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Music
Music by Ryōichi Hattori
Details
- Director
- Writers
- Shinji FujiwaraNovel
- Shōhei ImamuraScreenplay
- Hisashi YamanouchiScreenplay
- Original title
- 果しなき欲望
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- November 18, 1958
- Original language
- Japanese
- Countries
- Japan
Production
Cast
Hiroyuki NagatoSatoru
Misako WatanabeShima
Kō NishimuraPharmacist
Sanae NakaharaRyuko
Taiji TonoyamaRamen shop owner
Takeshi KatōBrutal yakuza
Shoichi OzawaA teacher- Reiji AkitsuDetective
Shinsuke Ashida
Nobuo Kawakami
Chieko MisakiKiyo
Ichirō SugaiKinzo Onoyu
Kaku Takashina- Shuntaro Tamamura
- Makiko Tsunoda
Shinichi Yanagisawa
Shizuko Kasagi(uncredited)
Kayo Matsuo(uncredited)
Tomiko Hattori(uncredited)
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