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The Book of the Dead

Shisha no sho (The Book of the Dead)

2005

Kihachirô Kawamoto

Animation

6.3

82

Animation. Drama The Nara period in Japan: Buddhism has recently been imported from China and is all the rage amongst the nobility. 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. Then, one evening, after copying a thousand pages of sutras, she sees a radiant figure floating above a distant mountain. She leaves her ... [+]

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