Ursprünglich war die Veröffentlichung der Masters of Cinema-Blu-ray von Shohei Imamuras “Profound Desires of the Gods / Kamigami no Fukaki Yokubo” [J 1968] für Mai 2010 angedacht. Der aktuelle Termin wurde auf den 21. Juni 2010 festgelegt. Beim britischen Versandhändler Play.com sind mittlerweile die Details zur Disc veröffentlicht worden.
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.
- Beautiful high-definition transfer, with exclusive digital image restoration
- New video introduction by film scholar Tony Rayns
- Original theatrical trailer
- Extensive booklet with a new essay by Rayns (to accompany his introduction), rare stills, reprinted statements by Imamura, a lengthy 1994 career interview and a transcript of Imamura’s introduction and Q&A session at the 1994 Edinburgh International Film Festival’s screening of the film
Über Twitter hat das Label auch schon auf einen Screenshot von der Blu-ray hingewiesen.
