The Profound Desire of the Gods (1968)

Original title

神々の深き欲望

Directed by

Shohei Imamura

Genre

drama film

Country

Japan

Runtime

2h 52m

Rated

15+

Rating

7.4 of 10 from 68 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A family on a remote island struggles with ancient traditions and modern pressures, leading to conflict and sacrifice. The story follows the entangled lives of the islanders as they grapple with forbidden desires and the weight of their gods.

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What happens

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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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