Endless Desire (果しなき欲望, Hateshinaki yokubō) is a 1958 Japanese black comedy[2] and crime film by Shōhei Imamura.
Ten years after the end of the Pacific War, four ex-soldiers meet to retrieve a quantity of morphine which had been hidden in an air-raid shelter: Onuma, pharmacist Nakata, professional criminal Yamamoto, and teacher Sawai.
The group rents an empty store from corrupt local landlord Kinzō and starts digging a tunnel to the butcher shop.
When Kinzō announces that the area will be demolished in the next few days due to a decree of the city's council, the group's dig becomes a race against time.
While fleeing through a heavy rain storm, Shima slips on a wet crossing and drowns in the river running underneath.