@article{article_792922, title={THE JAPANESE CREATION MYTH, THE VIOLATION OF TABOOS AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF MODERNITY IN “PROFOUND DESIRES OF THE GODS”}, journal={Moment Dergi}, volume={7}, pages={334–353}, year={2020}, DOI={10.17572/mj2020.2.334353}, author={Boz, Mikail}, keywords={mit, japon köken miti, tabu ve ihlal, Shohei Imamura, Tanrıların Derin Arzuları, modernite}, abstract={Myths include positive and negative elements, which the concept of modern social life is referred to, even though they seem to be the phenomena of ancient times. With its positive meaning, though it is a type of narrative which handles extraordinary subjects that happen to extraordinary people, the potential of this narrative to create a specific mystification leads myths to be interpreted as a carrier of “false consciousness”. Film texts are also a tool that constantly enables this double meaning and the element to the audiences. The relationship between mythography and cinema are analyzed within a specific film text in this study. Profound Desires of the Gods (Kamigami no fukaki yokubô), which was directed by Shohei Imamura and released in 1968, explicitly addresses to the Japanese creation myth. While the incidents experienced by the Futori family due to various crimes and the violations of taboos are handled in the forefront, concerns and fears about Japanese modernization are mentioned in the background. In this context, qualitative, structuralist mythographic analysis is made about this film in terms of the concepts of myth, taboo, violation, and modernization. In this film, which is analyzed under the conceptual opposites and titles such as nature/culture, taboo/violation, civilized/uncivilized, traditional/modern with the method of binary oppositions explained by Levi-Strauss, it is seen that the Japanese creation myth is tried to be revived, and the longing to traditional Japan against modern one emerge as a prominent discourse.}, number={2}, publisher={Hacettepe Üniversitesi}