Endless Desire

Year: 1958

Runtime: 101 mins

Language: Japanese

Director: Shôhei Imamura

Drama

In post‑war Japan, five strangers—a quartet of men and a lone woman—convene in the cramped basement of a butcher shop to unearth a cache of morphine hidden during the conflict. Their desperate quest sparks a darkly comic spiral of mistrust and twisted loyalties, and one by one the group meets a fatal end.

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