Indie Cinema Streamer OVID releases Kawamoto's "Book of the Dead"
OVID.tv, an American and Canadian broadcast service dedicated to independent cinema, celebrates the work of the animating master Kihachiro Kawamoto (1925-2010) with the launch on Friday of his only stop-motion film, The book of the dead. The 2005 historical story based on the novel of the same name is a tour de force adventure about a young noblewoman in XNUMXth-century Japan, who leaves her home to follow the appearance of a prince performed in a dazzling film of beauty and mysticism.
The book of the dead
Directed by Kihachiro Kawamoto; KimStim, animation
As Buddhism is introduced to Japan from China, Iratsume, a woman of noble descent, becomes obsessed with this mysteriously new religion. One night in an enthusiastic state of trance, Iratsume sees a bright vision that believes he is the Buddha, forcing her to leave her home and go to a sacred temple. There he sees Otsu, a young prince who was executed 50 years earlier.
While Iratsume confuses the spirit of the prince with the very incarnation of the great Buddha, the ghost confuses Iratsume with the last woman he saw at the time of death. As an act of great devotion, Iratsume decides to make a giant shroud for the prince to heal his soul, and the prince begins to chase the young woman and those around her. The couple engages in a passionate battle of wills, one craving the material world and the other struggling for the spiritual.
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