Suffering of Ninko
仁光の受難
2016 · 1h 10m · 5.4
Drama
Ninko is a virtuous Buddhist monk who’s embarrassed to discover that he’s irresistible to many women (and some men). After a particularly troubling encounter with a masked woman, he undertakes a journey to "purify" himself, hoping that this will equip him to rebuff sexual advances. He meets the samurai Kanzo and hears of a village decimated by the rapacious mountain goddess Yama-onna, who kills men to absorb their energy. Finally Ninko has a quest to fulfill…
Masato Tsujioka, Miho Wakabayashi, Hideta Iwahashi, Yukino Arimoto, Chris Katô, Hitoshi Murakami, Yuichiro Iwasa, Masamichi Hagiwara, Tomoko Harazaki, Yuria Fukatsuki
monk, youkai, forbidden sexuality, suffering of ninko, middle eastern folktale