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22 July 1970 (USA)
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The Tokyo engineer Kariya arrives on a primitive tropical island to drill a well to provide water for the sugar mill...
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deftly captures the alchemy of the natural world.
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Cast
(in credits order) | Rentarô Mikuni | ... | Nekichi Futori, the chained son |
| Chôichirô Kawarazaki | ... | Kametaro Futori, the backward son |
| Kazuo Kitamura | ... | Engineer Kariya |
| Hideko Okiyama | ... | Toriko Futori, the retarded daughter |
| Yoshi Katô | ... | Ritsugen Ryu |
| Yasuko Matsui | ... | Uma Futori, the priestess daughter |
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| Kanjûrô Arashi | ... | Yamamori Futori, the patriarch |
| Jun Hamamura | ||
| Sen Hara | ... | Unari Ryu |
| Chikako Hosokawa | ||
| Yasuhiko Ishizu | ||
| Hôsei Komatsu | ||
| Chikage Ogi | ||
| Taiji Tonoyama | ||
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| Shôhei Imamura | |||
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| Keiji Hasebe | writer | |
| Shôhei Imamura | writer | |
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| Masanori Yamanoi | .... | producer | |
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| Toshirô Mayuzumi | |||
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| Masao Tochizawa | |||
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| Mutsuo Tanji | |||
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| Takeshi Omura | |||
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| Kazuhiko Hasegawa | .... | assistant director | |
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- Films sans Frontières (1990) (France) (theatrical)
- East West Classics (1988) (USA) (subtitled)
- Eureka Entertainment (2010) (UK) (DVD)
- Národní Filmový Archiv (NFA) (Czech Republic)
- Toho Company (1970) (USA) (subtitled)
- Golden Whisky cooperation
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"Kamigami no fukaki yokubo" - Japan (original title)
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173 min
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Featured in "Cinéma, de notre temps: Shohei Imamura - Le libre penseur" (1995)See more »
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Trying to acknowledge the enigma of Japanese Cinema, outside the paddock of Akira Kurosawa (Seven Samurai) and Yasujiro Ozu (Tokyo Story), is a daunting yet arousing act. With Profound Desires of the Gods (1968), Shõhei Imamura redefined the rigorous notions of 'Japaneseness'. Because the Futori family retain the traditional belief that their island of Kurage was created through the sexual union of a brother god and sister goddess, the other more progressive islanders vilify them. When a Tokyo engineer arrives to supervise the creation of a new well, he unearths the mystifying extremism of the Noro (shaman). With Profound Desires, Imamura examines the dogma of Japanese mythology and investigates the disparaging effect of modernity and the ruinous consequence of Coca-Cola. It is a sizzling masterwork filled with Buñuelian surrealism, which deftly captures the alchemy of the natural world.