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Profound Desires of the Gods is a japonais film of genre Drama directed by Shōhei Imamura with Yoshi Katō
Profound Desires of the Gods (1968)
Kamigami no Fukaki Yokubo
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Add to a movie listThe 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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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.Actors
Yoshi Katō
(Ritsugen Ryu)
Rentarō Mikuni
(Nekichi Futori)
Kanjūrō Arashi
(Yamamori Futori)
Jun Hamamura
(Satokuri)
Chikako Hosokawa
(Mrs. Azuma)
Kazuhiko Hasegawa
(Young Man)
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