Hateshinaki yokubo (1958)

User Rating:

7.6/10   

Director:

Shohei Imamura

Writer:

Natto Wada (writer)

Release Date:

18 November 1958 (Japan)

Awards:

2 wins

Cast

Shizuko Kasagi
Tomiko Hattori
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Kayo Matsuo
Hiroyuki Nagato

Also Known As:

Endless Desire

Runtime:

101 min

Country:

Japan

Language:

Japanese

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Company:

Nikkatsu

A grim humorous tale of twisted relationships

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On the tenth anniversary of Japan's WWII surrender, a motley 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. This early gangster film foreshadows similar tangled relationships in Shohei Imamura's later films. I do not have much more to say, but I liked the movie enough to write a comment even though I cannot fill up all of the 10 lines required by IMDb So I do not have much more to say, but I liked the movie enough to write a comment even though I cannot fill up all of the 10 lines required by IMDb