The Profound Desire of the Gods
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Director Shohei Imamura Music director Toshiro Mayuzumi Language Japanese | 8/10 IMDb Genre Drama Duration Country Japan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Writer Keiji Hasebe , Shohei Imamura Release date November 22, 1968 (1968-11-22) Screenplay Shohei Imamura, Keiji Hasebe Cast Rentarô Mikuni (Nekichi Futori, the chained son), Kazuo Kitamura (Engineer Kariya), Hideko Okiyama (Toriko Futori, the retarded daughter), Yoshi Kato (Ritsugen Ryu), Yasuko Matsui (Uma Futori, the priestess daughter)Similar movies Related Shohei Imamura movies | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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.
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Plot
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.
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Awards
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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