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The Book of the Dead

62% | Jul 01, 2005 | Animation, Drama, Romance, History, Fantasy

A sheltered aristocratic woman in feudal Japan, bored and unfamiliar with the world outside her estate, passes the time copying a special Buddhist sutra sent by her father who has been absent on official business for years. While gazing out her window one late afternoon, the setting sun creates a vision of a holy figure in the distant mountains.

Featured Crew

Shinobu Orikuchi
Writer
Kihachiro Kawamoto
Director

Cast

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Kyôko Kishida
Narrator (voice)
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Tetsuko Kuroyanagi
Story Teller (voice)
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Rie Miyazawa
Iratsume of Fujiwara (voice)

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