The Book of the Dead
2005 · 70 MIN · IMDB 6.7 · 271 VOTES · DIR. Kihachiro Kawamoto
Overview
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.
Dialogue Timeline — 483 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:00:03 Kihachiro Kawamoto New Animation Production Committee
00:02:37 Musa no Chiomo Noriko Shindo
00:04:46 Another earthen wall.
00:06:49 She moved here with her father, Toyonori Ason, many years ago.
00:10:07 She was visibly fatigued.
00:12:50 Only that she left the house and headed west.
00:17:26 I came to worship the mountain.
00:19:37 Do you wish to hear of things that happened before your birth?
00:21:59 On hearing the prince would give up his life
00:24:53 Why does he now seem so divinely beautiful and pure?
00:28:11 Drip, drop...drip, drop...
00:30:21 Her father is too far away to speak for her.
00:32:34 awakened from a deep sleep.
00:35:31 'Amida Sutra'
00:39:17 8ut they say it looks just like the priest Dokyo.
00:41:21 Perhaps. When I read Chinese poets, my mind fills with strange, new ideas.
00:43:30 Of late, the sound seemed to have ceased.
00:46:46 So much spinning to do!
00:48:50 Where is the bow? We must quiet the spirits!
00:52:09 She would weave, and then clothe his bareness.
00:55:15 She would not delegate the work to anyone.
00:57:19 and it becomes a cloak for daytime.
01:00:02 The face that she had stored in her heart.
Cast & Characters
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed483
Dialogue density6.9 lines / min
First line00:00:03
Final line01:00:02
Production Record
DirectorKihachiro Kawamoto
LanguageJapanese
IMDb votes271