Details
Directed by Shohei Imamura
Produced by Masanori Yamanoi
Written by Keiji Hasebe
Shohei Imamura
Starring
Rentaro Mikuni
Choichiro Kawarazaki
Kazuo Kitamura
Hideko Okiyama
Yoshi Kato
Yasuko Matsui
Kanjuro Arashi
Music by Toshirô Mayuzumi
Cinematography Masao Tochizawa
Editing by Matsuo Tanji
Distributed by Nikkatsu Corporation, Toho International Company Inc. (USA, 1970), East West Classics (USA, 1988)
Release date(s) November 22, 1968 (Japan), July 22, 1970 (USA)
Language Japanese
Subtitle English.srt
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 Yokubo?) 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 to become one of the most legendary — albeit least seen — Japanese films of recent decades.
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.
At nearly three hours long, this is one of the most ambitious and epic films by Shohei Imamura: a tragic view of a passing epoch that teeters on the edge of grotesque farce.
Technical Info
Format : Matroska
File size : 6.54 GiB
Duration : 2h 53mn
Overall bit rate : 5 394 Kbps
Video
Format : AVC
Bit rate : 4 621 Kbps
Width : 1 280 pixels
Height : 544 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 2.35:1
Frame rate : 23.976 fps
Stream size : 5.49 GiB (84%)
Audio
Format : DTS
Bit rate : 755 Kbps
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Bit depth : 24 bits
Compression mode : Lossy
Stream size : 936 MiB (14%)
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