# Profound Desires of the Gods (1968)

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**Original title**: *神々の深き欲望*
**Runtime**: 173 min
**Genres**: Drama
**Directed by**: Shōhei Imamura
**Written by**: Shōhei Imamura, Keiji Hasebe
**Starring**: Rentaro Mikuni, Chōichirō Kawarasaki, Kazuo Kitamura, Hideko Okiyama, Yasuko Matsui, Yoshi Katō

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

A Tokyo engineer shipped to a remote island to sink a test well stumbles into the Futori clan’s closed rituals. The island’s living history clashes with his drills and dreams. A 1968 time-capsule of friction between tradition and progress.

**Mood tags**: foreign-gem, dread, outsider, slow-burn

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