Profound Desires of the Gods
| Profound Desires of the Gods | |
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 DVD release of Profound Desires of the Gods (1968) | |
| Directed by | Shōhei Imamura |
| Written by | Keiji Hasebe Shohei Imamura |
| Produced by | Masanori Yamanoi |
| Starring | Rentarō Mikuni Chōichirō Kawarazaki Kazuo Kitamura Hideko Okiyama Yoshi Kato Yasuko Matsui Kanjūrō Arashi |
| Cinematography | Masao Tochizawa |
| Edited by | Matsuo Tanji |
| Music by | Toshiro Mayuzumi |
| Distributed by | Nikkatsu Corporation, Toho International Company Inc. (USA, 1970), East West Classics (USA, 1988) |
Release date |
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Running time | 172 minutes |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
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.
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.
Cast
- Rentarō Mikuni as Nekichi Futori, the chained son
- Chōichirō Kawarazaki as Kametaro Futori, the backward son
- Kazuo Kitamura as Engineer Kariya
- Hideko Okiyama as Toriko Futori, the retarded daughter
- Yoshi Katō as Ritsugen Ryu
- Yasuko Matsui as Uma Futori, the priestess daughter
- Hôsei Komatsu
- Chikako Hosokawa
- Chikage Ôgi
- Jun Hamamura
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.[1]
- Kinema Junpo Award (1969): Best Director
- Best Film; Mainichi Film Concours (1969): Best Film, Best Screenplay, Best Supporting Actor (Kanjūrō Arashi)
See also
- List of submissions to the 42nd Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film
- List of Japanese submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
References
- ^ "List of Japanese films nominated for Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film" (in Japanese). Motion Picture Producers Association of Japan. Retrieved 2008-06-22.
External links
- Kamigami no Fukaki Yokubo at IMDb
- 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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