The Profound Desire of the Gods

The Profound Desire of the Gods

Infobox Film | name = The Profound Desire of the Gods


caption = DVD release of Profound Desire of the Gods (1968)
director = Shohei Imamura
producer = Masanori Yamanoi
writer = Keiji Hasebe
Shohei Imamura
starring = Rentaro Mikuni
Choichiro Kawarazaki
Kazuo Kitamura
Hideko Okiyama
Yoshi Kato
Yasuko Matsui
Kanjuro Arashi
music = Toshirô Mayuzumi
cinematography = Masao Tochizawa
editing = Matsuo Tanji
distributor = Nikkatsu Corporation, Toho International Company Inc. (USA, 1970), East West Classics (USA, 1988)
released = November 22, 1968 (Japan), July 22, 1970 (USA)
runtime = 172 min. (Canada)
language = Japanese
budget =
imdb_id = 0063173
awards = Kinema Junpo Award (1969): Best Director, Best Film; Mainichi Film Concours (1969): Best Film, Best Screenplay, Best Supporting Actor (Kanjuro Arashi)
nihongo|"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.




Plot

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.

ee also

* 1968 in film

External links

*
* Luck, Richard. [http://www.channel4.com/film/reviews/film.jsp?id=145920 The Profound Desire Of The Gods (Kamigami No Fukaki Yokubo)] (film review) at [http://www.channel4.com/index.html channel4.com]
* Maslin, Janet. (1988). [http://movies2.nytimes.com/mem/movies/review.html?_r=1&title1=PROFOUND%20DESIRE%20OF%20THE%20GODS%2C%20THE%20(MOVIE)&title2=&reviewer=JANET%20MASLIN&pdate=19880506&v_id=&oref=slogin Imamura on Updating Divine Squalor] (film review) at The New York Times Online


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