Endless Desire (1958)

Shōhei Imamura · 101 min · Letterboxd ↗

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.

Endless Desire screens once in London: ICA, Saturday 24 October at 16:00.