Endless Desire
Shohei ImamuraCast
Hiroyuki Nagato 
Misako Watanabe 
Kō Nishimura 
Sanae Nakahara 
Taiji Tonoyama 
Takeshi Katō
Credits
Written by: Shinji Fujiwara
Plot
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.
Sinekatalog’s take
A grim, darkly funny postwar tale of scavengers digging for buried morphine and eliminating one another. Its bitter view of greed is sharp and lively, a vivid piece for fans of cynical Japanese black comedy.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.
Ratings
IMDb: 7.2 / 10 (586 votes)
IMDb rating and vote count from the IMDb ratings dataset (October 2026). Scores change over time.
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