Double layer; aspect ratio 16:9. Title from disc label. Based on the comic by Akiyama Jōji. Originally produced as a motion picture in 2012. Voices: Nozawa Masako, Kitaōji Kinya, Hayashibara Megumi. Special features: Interviews with crews and casts; making of Ashura; digest clips; theatrical trailers.
Summary:
"Mid-fifteenth century, Japan. Flood, drought and famine have transformed the landscape of the capital Kyoto into a barren wasteland. More than 80,000 have perished in the three years between 1459 and 1461. This desolate state served as the backdrop to the beginning of the country's greatest civil war. The victims of this dark period in Japan's history were too great in number to include in the pages of history. In this era, a boy was born a beast, Asura. Abandoned as an infant, Asura is forced to learn the means to survive in the wild. In time, he would learn to kill human... Asura's lost soul is saved by the grace of a young girl named Wakasa. Through love she tames Asura's beastly heart and teaches him the lessons of humanity. Nevertheless, as Asura attempts to assimilate into village life, the poverty-stricken villagers are unwilling to accept the strange outsider and retaliate. Though he was taught kindness, love and empathy, it is jealousy and prejudice that drives him. And also Wakasa... A story of wild young boy who would grow up to be the high priest Asura who would leave guide the lost souls to heaven."--J-Pitch JFDB.
OCLC:
(OCoLC)858869424
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)
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