Profound Desires of the Gods (1968)
With Rentarō Mikuni, Yoshi Katō, Kanjūrō Arashi, Jun Hamamura
Directed by Shohei Imamura
Profound Desires of the Gods or Deep Desires of Gods or Kuragejima – Legends from a Southern Island (Japanese: 神々の深き欲望, Hepburn: Kamigami no Fukaki Yokubō) is a 1968 Japanese film by director Shōhei 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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