If you loved Vengeance Is Mine, try Profound Desires of the Gods
A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.
What they share
Both films are directed by Shōhei Imamura, and they both carry the foreign gem, slow burn mood tags, and they sit in Drama territory. If that's the register that drew you to Vengeance Is Mine, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
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What Profound Desires of the Gods is
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.
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