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- How long is The Profound Desire of the Gods?
- The Profound Desire of the Gods is 2 hr 52 min long.
- Who directed The Profound Desire of the Gods?
- Shôhei Imamura
- Who is Nekichi Futori in The Profound Desire of the Gods?
- Rentarô Mikuni plays Nekichi Futori in the film.
- What is The Profound Desire of the Gods about?
- This expansive drama follows Kariya (Kazuo Kitamura), an engineer from Tokyo, as he deals with the natives of a remote island. The inbred and highly eccentric Futori family is shunned by most of the other islanders, but Kariya must work with the strange clan in order to construct a well that will supply water to the sugar mill. As Kariya goes about his job, he encounters various Futoris, including the mystically inclined Uma (Yasuko Matsui) and her disgraced brother, Nekichi (Rentarô Mikuni).