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The Book of the Dead

The Book of the Dead
Release date: 2005-07-01
Rating: 6.2
Votes: 5
Genres: Animation, Drama, Romance, History, Fantasy
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.

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