Endless Desire
果しなき欲望
1958 · 1h 41m · Comedy, Drama · Japan
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.
Directed by
Shōhei ImamuraBased on the novel by
Shinji Fujiwara6.1Smart score
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japanese noir
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