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Book of the dead (Japanese Movie DVD)
AKA : Kihachiro Kawamoto
Kihachiro Kawamoto , Tetsuko Kuroyanagi , Rie Miyazawa
Book of the dead

Language : Japanese
Subtitle : English,Chinese S T(What is it ?)
Media : DVD All region NTSC Format
Genre : Action
# of Disc : 1 Disc
Released : 2007
Product code : 2300061
$12.99
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The Book of the Dead (Shisha no Sho) is a 2005 stop motion-animated feature film directed by Kihachiro Kawamoto. It is only his second feature film, the first being the 1981 Rennyo and His Mother. It appeared in a couple of film festivals in 2005 before going into wide release in Japan on February 11, 2006, and since then has won several awards at international animation festivals.

The film is based on a novel by Shinobu Orikuchi and in the Nara period at around 750 CE, the era when Buddhism was being introduced from China. Iratsume, a young woman from a noble house, becomes obsessed with the new religion and spends much of her time hand-copying the sutras, trying to understand the teachings of the Buddha. One evening, after copying a thousand pages of sutras, she sees a radiant figure looking not unlike Buddha floating above a distant mountain. She follows him out of her house, up the foot of the mountain and arrives at a temple that women are forbidden to enter.

There she realises that the figure is not Buddha, but the soul of the executed prince Otsu which wanders in torment between this world and the next. When princess Iratsume and Otsu's soul encounter, they feel compelled to unite. They forge a bond, bringing comfort and peace to each other – a bond that allows the prince Otsu's soul to find rest. The film follows the Japanese teaching that came from Buddhism: that no matter who they are, friends or foes, the souls of the dead need to be relieved. Kawamoto has said that the film is dedicated to all the innocent people who have died in recent wars.






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