Profound Desires of the Gods
Kamigami no fukaki yokubô

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- Direction: Shôhei Imamura
- Script: Keiji Hasebe, Shôhei Imamura
- Cinematography: Masao Tochizawa
- Editing: Mutsuo Tanji
- Music: Toshirô Mayuzumi
- Actors: Rentarô Mikuni, Chôichirô Kawarasaki, Hideko Okiyama, Kanjûrô Arashi, Yasuko Matsui
- Production Design: Takeshi Ômura
- Format: DCP
- Color: Colour
- Production Country: Japan
- Production Year: 1968
- Duration: 175΄
Shohei Imamura
He was born in Tokyo, in 1926. He studied Western history at Waseda University, where he also wrote and staged plays. In 1951 he began working as an assistant director and, in 1958, he shot his first feature film. He founded his own production company and, in 1975, he created what is known today as the Japanese Academy of Visual Arts. His films The Ballad of Narayama (1983) and The Eel (1996) won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival.
Filmography
1958 Desir volé
1963 La femme insecte
1979 La vengeance est à moi
1983 La ballade de Narayama
1987 Zegen / Le seigneur des bordels
1989 Pluie noire 1996 L’anguille
1997 Kanzo Sensei
2001 De l’eau tiède sous un pont rouge