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
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
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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