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The Book of the Dead is a film of genre Drama directed by Kihachirō Kawamoto released in USA on 1 january 2006 with Tetsuko Kuroyanagi
The Book of the Dead (2006)
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Add to a movie listThe Book of the Dead (死者の書, Shisha no Sho, also known as "The Book of a Dead Person") is a 2005 Japanese stop motion animation feature film directed by Kihachirō Kawamoto. It is his second feature film, the first being the Rennyo and His Mother (1981) and is based on the novel of the same name by Shinobu Orikuchi. It appeared in a couple of film festivals in 2005 before going into wide release in Japan on 11 February 2006 and has since won several awards at international animation festivals. It was shown in cinemas across the United Kingdom in the spring of 2008 as part of Kawamoto: The Puppet Master, a touring season of the Watershed Media Centre,[1] and was released on DVD-Video in North America on 22 April 2008.
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The Book of the Dead is set in the Nara period at around 750 CE, the era when Buddhism was being introduced from China.Actors
Tetsuko Kuroyanagi
(Story Teller (voice))
Kyōko Kishida
(Narrator (voice))
Rie Miyazawa
(Iratsume of Fujiwara (voice))
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