Profound Desires Of The Gods (Blu-ray)

The culmination of Shohei Imamura's extraordinary examinations of the fringes of Japanese society
throughout the 1960s, Profound Desires of the Gods was 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.