Director
Shôhei Imamura
Music (original)
Toshirô Mayuzumi
Cast
Hiroyuki Nagato, Misako Watanabe, Kô Nishimura
Edition 1998
101'
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1958
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Crime, Comedy
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Format:
35mm
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Dialogue:
Japanese
A large haul of morphine is cached during the war in the sleepy town of Himeji, in an air-raid shelter over which a butcher shop is subsequently built. A gang of five Osakans sets out to recover the morphine, led by the widow of the crook who buried it. The emotional and sexual complications that ensure are ended when the widow poisons off her associates and escapes with the morphine, only to fall with her booty into a river that is soon littered with OD’d fishes. The widow is totally ruthless in her greed for profit, using sex, jealousy, and finally murder to outmanoeuvre her male associates. She is the prototypical Imamura heroine, who he says is “true to life - just look around you at Japanese women. They are strong and outlive men”…
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Credits
Directors
Shôhei Imamura
Music (original)
Toshirô Mayuzumi
Cast
Hiroyuki Nagato, Misako Watanabe, Kô Nishimura
Scenario
Shôhei Imamura, Shinji Fujiwara, Hisashi Yamanouchi
Director of Photography
Shinsaku Himeda
Editors
Mutsuo Tanji
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Dialogue
Japanese
Countries of production
Japan
Screenplay based on
Endless Desire (Shinji Fujiwara)
Year
1958
Filmography
Shôhei Imamura
Stolen Desire (1958), Nishi Ginza Station (1958), Endless Desire (1958), My Second Brother (1959), Pigs and Battleships (1961), The Insect Woman (1963), Intentions of Murder (1964), The Pornographers (1966), A Man Vanishes (1967), Profound Desires of the Gods (1968), History of Postwar Japan as Told by a Bar Hostess (1970), Karayuki-san, the Making of a Prostitute (1975), Vengeance Is Mine (1979), Why Not? (1981), The Ballad of Narayama (1983), Zegen (1987), Black Rain (1989), The Eel (1997), Dr. Akagi (1998), Warm Water Under a Red Bridge (2001), September 11 (2002)
Technical Specs
Format
35mm