Japan,
2012, 76 min
Directed by:
Kei'ichi SatōScreenplay:
Ikuko TakahashiCast:
Kinya Kitaôji, Megumi Hayashibara, Tesshō Genda, Daisuke Sakaguchi, Masako Nozawa, Hiroaki Hirata, Yumiko Kobayashi, Hiroshi Naka, Tôru Nara, Mie Sonozaki (more)Plots(1)
The artistically impressive yet deeply murky anime, which has received high critical rating, is situated into the mid-15th century when the wartime rages and catastrophes almost changed Japan into the ghost land. A boy named Asura, after the dark deities known from Vedas, is born to a mother dying from hunger. Asura's despairing mother tries to dispense with the newborn baby - it is miraculously saved but sentenced to live a life of a wild animal. Asura learns to eat human flesh to survive, and thus his body and soul gradually transform into that of a demon. However, an enlighten monk and a beautiful girl one day cross his way... (Eiga-sai)
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