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Endless Desire
JAPAN · 1958

Endless Desire

Shohei Imamura
post-war Japan drug addiction criminal conspiracy betrayal and elimination moral corruption
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Synopsis

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.

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