| Profound Desires of the Gods | |
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 DVD release of Profound Desires of the Gods (1968) | |
| Directed by | Shōhei Imamura |
| Written by | Keiji Hasebe Shohei Imamura |
| Produced by | Masanori Yamanoi |
| Starring | Rentarō Mikuni Chōichirō Kawarazaki Kazuo Kitamura Hideko Okiyama Yoshi Katō Yasuko Matsui Kanjūrō Arashi |
| Cinematography | Masao Tochizawa |
| Edited by | Matsuo Tanji |
| Music by | Toshiro Mayuzumi |
| Distributed by | Nikkatsu Corporation, Toho International Company Inc. (USA, 1970), East West Classics (USA, 1988) |
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Running time | 172 minutes |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
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 Yokubō) 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.