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Shôhei Imamura

Profound Desires of the Gods (Kamigami no fukaki yokubo)

Director Shôhei Imamura Music (original) Toshirô Mayuzumi Cast Rentaro Mikuni, Chôichirô Kawarasaki, Hideko Okiyama
173' - 1968 - Drama - Format: 35mm - Dialogue: Japanese
An engineer from Tokyo travels to a remote island to supervise the development of a new railroad project. He encounters superstitious natives and discovers one family who has kept their son enslaved and in chains for 20 years for lusting after his sister. The man from Tokyo slowly becomes immersed in the culture and religion of the island to the point he no longer wishes to be part of modern civilisation. The brother escapes with his sister through the jungle before incurring the violent wrath of the outraged villagers. Years later, the train engineer believes he sees the dead sister on the train tracks, stopping the train but finding no trace of the girl or her brother. (All-Movie Guide, Dan Pavlides)

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Credits

Directors

Shôhei Imamura

Music (original)

Toshirô Mayuzumi

Cast

Rentaro Mikuni, Chôichirô Kawarasaki, Hideko Okiyama

Scenario

Shôhei Imamura, Keiji Hasebe

Director of Photography

Masao Tochizawa

Editors

Mutsuo Tanji

Producers

Masanori Yamanoi

More info

Dialogue

Japanese

Countries of production

Japan

Year

1968

Filmography

Shôhei Imamura
Stolen Desire (1958), Nishi Ginza Station (1958), Endless Desire (1958), My Second Brother (1959), Pigs and Battleships (1961), The Insect Woman (1963), Intentions of Murder (1964), The Pornographers (1966), A Man Vanishes (1967), Profound Desires of the Gods (1968), History of Postwar Japan as Told by a Bar Hostess (1970), Karayuki-san, the Making of a Prostitute (1975), Vengeance Is Mine (1979), Why Not? (1981), The Ballad of Narayama (1983), Zegen (1987), Black Rain (1989), The Eel (1997), Dr. Akagi (1998), Warm Water Under a Red Bridge (2001), September 11 (2002)

Technical Specs

Format
35mm