Shisha no Sho (2005)

Name: Shisha no Sho
Genre: Animation, Drama
Released: 2020-12-28T09:37:44+01:00
Rating: 2.75
Cast: Kyôko Kishida, Tetsuko Kuroyanagi, Rie Miyazawa

Animation | 70 minutes

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Genre: Animation / Drama

Duration: 70 minuten

Alternative titles: The Book of the Dead / 死者の書

Country: Japan

Directed by: Kihachiro Kawamoto

Stars: Kyôko Kishida, Tetsuko Kuroyanagi, Rie Miyazawa

IMDb score: 6,7 (274)

Releasedate: 1 July 2005

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Shisha no Sho plot

The young noble Iratsume falls under the spell of Buddha and spends nights studying his teachings. One night she sees a ghost. Convinced that this is Buddha, she follows the apparition to a remote temple. There she discovers that it is the restless soul of the wrongly executed Prince Otsu. He sees Iratsume as one of her ancestors: Mimimo No Toji. Her beautiful face was the last Otsu saw before his death and he cannot rest as long as her face haunts him. A battle of wills erupts between the ghostly prince who wants to return from the afterlife and Iratsume who wants to flee to the spiritual world.