The Profound Desire of the Gods
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DVD release of Profound Desires of the Gods (1968)
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| Directed by | Shōhei Imamura |
| Produced by | Masanori Yamanoi |
| Written by |
Keiji Hasebe Shohei Imamura |
| Starring |
Rentarō Mikuni Chōichirō Kawarazaki Kazuo Kitamura Hideko Okiyama Yoshi Kato Yasuko Matsui Kanjūrō Arashi |
| Music by | Toshiro Mayuzumi |
| Cinematography | Masao Tochizawa |
| Edited by | Matsuo Tanji |
| Distributed by | Nikkatsu Corporation, Toho International Company Inc. (USA, 1970), East West Classics (USA, 1988) |
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172 minutes |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
The Profound Desires of the Gods or Deep Desires of Gods or Kuragejima – Legends from a Southern Island (神々の深き欲望 Kamigami no Fukaki Yokubō?) is a 1968 Japanese film by director Shohei Imamura. The culmination of the director's examinations of the fringes of Japanese society throughout the 1960s, the film was an 18-month super-production which failed to make an impression at the time of its release, but has since risen in stature.
Presenting a vast chronicle of life on the remote Kurage Island, the film centres on the disgraced, superstitious, interbred Futori family and the Tokyo engineer sent to supervise the creation of a new well for the Sugar Mill – an encounter which leads to both conflict and complicity in strange and powerful ways.
The film was Japan's submission to the 42nd Academy Awards for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, but was not accepted as a nominee.
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