Profound Desires of the Gods ( Kamigami no Fukaki Yokubo ) ( Kuragejima - Legends from a Southern Island ) [ NON-USA FORMAT, Blu-Ray, Reg.B Import - United Kingdom ]

Profound Desires of the Gods ( Kamigami no Fukaki Yokubo ) ( Kuragejima - Legends from a Southern Island ) [ NON-USA FORMAT, Blu-Ray, Reg.B Import - United Kingdom ] Review

Profound Desires of the Gods ( Kamigami no Fukaki Yokubo ) ( Kuragejima - Legends from a Southern Island ) [ NON-USA FORMAT, Blu-Ray, Reg.B Import - United Kingdom ] Feature

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United Kingdom released, Blu-Ray/Region B : it WILL NOT play on regular DVD player, or on standard US Blu-Ray player. You need multi-region Blu-Ray player to view it in USA/Canada: LANGUAGES: Japanese ( Dolby Digital 5.1 ), Japanese ( Dolby DTS-HD Master Audio ), English ( Subtitles ), WIDESCREEN (2.35:1), SPECIAL FEATURES: Booklet, Interactive Menu, Scene Access, Trailer(s), SYNOPSIS: The culmination of Shohei Imamura's extraordinary examinations of the fringes of Japanese society throughout the 1960s, Profound Desires of the Godswas an 18-month super-production which failed to make an impression at the time of its release, but has since risen in stature to become one of the most legendary albeit least seen Japanese films of recent decades. Presenting a vast chronicle of life on the remote Kurage Island, the film centres on the disgraced, superstitious, interbred Futori family and the Tokyo engineer sent to supervise the creation of a new well an encounter which leads to both conflict and complicity in strange and powerful ways. A tragic view of a passing epoch that teeters on the edge of grotesque farce, Imamura's merciless gaze combines with spectacular colour 'Scope photography to create a mythic saga convulsing with earthly impulses.