Endless Desire

Imamura takes a darkly comic look at postwar desperation. A quintet of misfits attempts to unearth a stash of morphine buried beneath a butcher shop. Turns out, sharing is not caring, especially when hard drugs are involved.

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Shōhei Imamura directed Endless Desire in 1958. See Shōhei Imamura's full filmography, where to start with Shōhei Imamura, or where to go after you've seen everything by Shōhei Imamura.

Endless Desire was released in 1958 (JA original-language production), with a runtime of 101 minutes.