![]() And when stripped of them, the plot becomes just a decent historical ghost story overusing and overexposing the computer generated special effects at the expense of telling a coherent story and portraying a least a few somewhat believable characters. Perhaps I'm missing some important hints, but to me all the film seemed to be composed of such disjonted pieces. ![]() It doesn't even play any important role in the plot he's a Japanese in China. ![]() If not for his robes, I could have overlooked he's a monk. Neither he is important, nor his buddhism. My expectations turned out to be utterly misplaced. So I felt excited when I learned there is a recent high budget film with him as the main protagonist as it seemed. In fact I was reading recently a bit about Japanase buddhism and Kukai, the founder of Japanese Shingon Buddhism.
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