The Book of the Dead

October. 21,2006      
Rating:
6.6
Trailer Synopsis Cast

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.

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

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