The Book of the Dead

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
• July 1, 2005
• Runtime
• 70 min
• Genres
• Animation, Drama, Romance, History, Fantasy
• Director
• Kihachiro Kawamoto

Cast

Kyôko Kishida Narrator (voice) Tetsuko Kuroyanagi Story Teller (voice) Rie Miyazawa Iratsume of Fujiwara (voice)