Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Mushi-shi : the movie / Tohokushinsha Film Corporation ; Bandai Networks Co. Ltd. ; Showgate, Inc. ; Pyramid Film Inc. ; Tokyu Recreation Co. Ltd. ; Ogura Jimusyo Inc. in association with MaxMedia present a film by Katsuhiro Otomo ; producer, Satoru Ogura ; screenplay, Sadayuki Murai ; written and directed by Katsuhiro Otomo.

Publisher, Date:

[Fort Worth, TX] : FUNimation Entertainment, [2009]

Description:

1 videodisc (131 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

Summary:

Japan, turn-of-the-century. Ginko is afflicted with the gift of seeing strange natural spirits called Mushi. He travels the countryside ridding people of these ancient, troublesome forces. He is haunted by the childhood events that turned him into a Mushi-Shi, or Mushi Master, and struggles with the realization that the very same Mushi that changed him could now be controlling an old mentor and wrecking havoc on the natural world.

Target Audience Note:

TV-14.

Subjects:

Spirits -- Drama.

Parapsychology -- Japan -- Drama.

Mentoring -- Japan -- Drama.

Nature -- Drama.

Genre:

Fantasy films.

Action and adventure films.

Feature films.

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