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The Book of the Dead

Plot: 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: Friday, July 1 2005
19 years ago
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Portrait of Kyôko KishidaKyôko KishidaKyôko Kishida was 75 in The Book of the Dead as 'Narrator (voice)'.
Birthday: Tue, Apr 29 1930 –
Sun, Dec 17 2006
Portrait of Tetsuko KuroyanagiTetsuko KuroyanagiTetsuko Kuroyanagi was 71 in The Book of the Dead as 'Story Teller (voice)'.
Birthday: Wed, Aug 09 1933
Portrait of Rie MiyazawaRie MiyazawaRie Miyazawa was 32 in The Book of the Dead as 'Iratsume of Fujiwara (voice)'.
Birthday: Fri, Apr 06 1973

Crew

Portrait of Kihachiro KawamotoKihachiro KawamotoKihachiro Kawamoto was 80 in The Book of the Dead as 'Director'
Birthday: Sun, Jan 11 1925 –
Mon, Aug 23 2010
Portrait of Shinobu OrikuchiShinobu OrikuchiShinobu Orikuchi was >> in The Book of the Dead as 'Writer'
Birthday: Unknown Birthday