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The Book of the Dead (2005)

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.

Release: 2005-07-01
Runtime: 70 min
Rating: 6.2 / 10
Cast
Kyôko Kishida
Kyôko Kishida
Narrator (voice)
Tetsuko Kuroyanagi
Tetsuko Kuroyanagi
Story Teller (voice)
Rie Miyazawa
Rie Miyazawa
Iratsume of Fujiwara (voice)