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Takahashi Banmei
Japan
2009
127 min.

Director: Takahashi Banmei
Photography: Mizuguchi Noriyuki
Editor: Kikuchi Junichi
Production Company: Twins Japan World
Distribution & Sales: Kadokawa Pictures

Address: Twins Japan, Sugihara Noriaki, 3F Yokoyama, bldg. 1-29-4 Shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, 160-0022, Japan
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Takahashi Banmei

Film director, writer and producer of several awarded films.
Regizor, scenarist şi producător al mai multor filme premiate.
Filmography / Filmografie
Zen (2009)
Oka wo koete (2008)
Hibi (2005)
Hikari no ame (2001)
Ai no shinsekai (1994)
Shura no teioh (1994)
Torarete Tamaruka! 3 (1994)
Ningen kôsaten (1993)
Shishioh-tachi no saigo (1993)
Torarete Tamaruka! 2 (1993)
Torarete Tamaruka! (1992)
Shishiohtachi no natsu (1991)
Doa 2 (1991) (as Tomoaki Takahashi)
Abunai hanashi mugen monogatari (1989)
Doa (1988) (as Tomoaki Takahashi)
Tattoo Ari (1982)
Yarareta onna (1981)
Shoujo joufu (1980)
Shoujo kinbaku (1980)
Kinbaku no johi (1979)
Onna keimusho shikei (1978)
Nippon no gômon (1978)
Aru onna kyôshi: Kinbaku (1978)
Shoujo wo shibaru (1978)
Shimai wo okasu (1977)
Hikoh kiroku-shoujo baishun (1976)
Awards / Premii
Director’s Prize, Yokohama Film Festival

Synopsis / Sinopsis
Bordering fiction, the film brings back the true, instructive story of Dogen, a legendary Zen master from Japan. In 1223, the orphan Dogen goes to China to learn about real Buddhism, thus reaching spiritual accomplishment. After learning the Practice and the Teachings of a Chef, he goes back to Japan where, through the books he writes and through the disciples that he gathers around, preaches the real teachings of Buddha. Orin, a girl whom he had saved in his youth and has become a prostitute in order to support her son and her crippled husband, joins him as well. Although he enters Nirvana four decades after his initiating journey, Dogen continues to date to teach people the way of living a paradise on earth, taking things as they are and finding the Buddha within each and everyone.
Filmul, aflat la graniţă cu ficţiunea, reînvie povestea adevărată, plină de pilde, a lui Dogen, un legendar maestru Zen originar din Japonia. În 1223, orfanul Dogen pleacă în China pentru a descoperi adevăratul budism şi a atinge astfel desăvârşirea spirituală. După ce deprinde Practica şi Învăţăturile de la un maestru bucătar, se reîntoarce în Japonia, unde, prin cărţile pe care le scrie şi prin discipolii pe care-i adună în jurul său, propovăduieşte adevăratele învăţături ale lui Buddha. I se alătură şi Orin, fata a cărei viaţă o salvase în tinereţe şi care devenise între timp prostituată, pentru a-şi putea întreţine copilul şi soţul olog. Deşi intră în Nirvana la patru decenii de la călătoria sa iniţiatică, Dogen continuă şi astăzi să-i înveţe pe oameni modalităţile prin care pot trăi ca în paradis pe pământ, acceptând toate lucrurile aşa cum sunt ele şi găsindu-l pe Buddha care se află în fiecare.

ASTRA FILM FESTIVAL 2009
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Saturday 31 - Hall B - 21h00 / Sambata 31 - Sala B - 21h00
Films in PANORAMA / Filme in PANORAMA
DOLLS – A WOMAN FROM DAMASCUS , Diana El Jeiroudi, Syria
FLYING ON ONE ENGINE
, Joshua Z Weinstein, USA
PRISONERS OF A WHITE GOD , Steve Lichtag, Czech Republic
THE SPEAKING TREE , Natasha de Betak, USA
TESTIMONY/TESTIMONIAL , Razvan Georgescu, Germany / Romania
UPSTREAM BATTLE
, Ben Kempas, Germany
ZEN
, Takahashi Banmei, Japan








 

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