The Profound Desire of the Gods
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| The Profound Desire of the Gods | |
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 DVD release of Profound Desire of the Gods (1968) |
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| Directed by | Shohei Imamura |
| Produced by | Masanori Yamanoi |
| Written by | Keiji Hasebe Shohei Imamura |
| Starring | Rentaro Mikuni Choichiro Kawarazaki Kazuo Kitamura Hideko Okiyama Yoshi Kato Yasuko Matsui Kanjuro Arashi |
| Music by | Toshirô Mayuzumi |
| Cinematography | Masao Tochizawa |
| Editing by | Matsuo Tanji |
| Distributed by | Nikkatsu Corporation, Toho International Company Inc. (USA, 1970), East West Classics (USA, 1988) |
| Release date(s) | November 22, 1968 (Japan), July 22, 1970 (USA) |
| Running time | 172 min. (Canada) |
| Language | Japanese |
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The Profound Desire of the Gods or Deep Desire of Gods or Kuragejima - Legends from a Southern Island (神々の深き欲望 Kamigami no Fukaki Yokubo?) is a 1968 Japanese film by director Shohei Imamura.
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The film depicts the traditional society that exists on a southern Japanese island, and the events that take place when a Tokyo engineer arrives to build a well for a sugar mill. This is one of Imamura's most ambitious, near-epic films.
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- Kamigami no Fukaki Yokubo at the Internet Movie Database
- Luck, Richard. The Profound Desire Of The Gods (Kamigami No Fukaki Yokubo) (film review) at channel4.com
- Maslin, Janet. (1988). Imamura on Updating Divine Squalor (film review) at The New York Times Online
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