Movie: The Book of the Dead

Top 3 Billed Cast

Kyôko Kishida
岸田今日子

Narrator (voice)

Tetsuko Kuroyanagi
黒柳徹子

Story Teller (voice)

Rie Miyazawa
宮沢りえ

Iratsume of Fujiwara (voice)

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    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 Date

    2005-07-01

  • Average

    6.5

  • Rating:

    3.3 starts
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    日本語

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