"Dear Monju," "I do not have much time left in this world" "Mother, please do not say such a sad thing" "These days many people believe the teaching that if you place your faith in Buddha you will reach paradise after you die" "I wonder, if it is truly possible to reach paradise" "I do not know the answer" "But I believe it is meaningless to reach paradise after death" "I believe that the only paradise" "I will ever find is my time here beside you" "Here and now is paradise" "You are right, Mother" "We must create paradise here on earth" "But if this is paradise, why must people fight and suffer from illness, unable to escape the pain of death?" "Monju, I want you to find a way to escape all this suffering" "Your mother will wait forever for you to find it" "Dogen in China, 1223" "You are on a quest to seek your true master" "I approve of your goal, but Dogen, Buddhism does not require a master" "You will come to understand it on your own" "That is what my master taught me" "Now I must go to meet some government officials" "This is also necessary to protect the temple" "Surely you understand, Dogen" "Perhaps that will help you protect the temple" "And yet..." "And yet, what?" "And yet, will that help to protect Buddhism?" "It is yourself you wish to protect" "Master" "Please excuse me, but may I carry your load?" "Thank you for your kind words" "But this is part of my precious task, as Kitchen Master which Buddha assigned to me, despite my age" "I cannot assign this work to anyone else" "So it is your job to prepare the temple meals" "Indeed" "I came to town to purchase the ingredients to make a noodle soup to serve to the monks" "Why is this still your task?" "At your age, surely you should be spending your time sitting in Zen meditation, or working on your Zen koan" "You appear to be a wise man, but it seems you know nothing about the Practice" "You seem not to even know the Teachings" "What is the practice?" "What is the teachings?" "Monk from Japan, seek always to answer those questions" "That shall be your path to understanding the practice and the teachings" "Elder monk, shall I ever see you again?" "If I am still alive" "I am the cook at Ayu-wan-shan Kuang-li Zen temple" "Kugyo" "Kugyo, it is you!" "Excuse me, I do not speak your foreign tongue" "Forgive me" "I am a monk, visiting from Japan" "You look so much like my friend, for a moment," "I forgot he is dead and called out to you" "He is dead..." "Kugyo is his name?" "Yes" "Minamoto Kugyo" "Is his Japanese name" "He was my dearest friend" "It is my wish..." "To rule this land" "I will become ruler" "Rule the land..." "If you can establish a new Buddhism, as ruler, I shall convert to it" "Dogen, leave Hieizan" "I aim for China" "China?" "Stop!" "You thief!" "Help me!" "No!" "Kugyo, stop!" "Dogen, move" "Kugyo, kill me!" "What?" "It is not your place to judge her" "As ruler it will be your job to create a world, where children like her do not have to go hungry" "I have come to bid you farewell" "Farewell?" "I have been ordered to become Administrator at the Kamakura Shrine" "To Kamakura?" "The next time I see you, I will be Shogun in Kamakura" "Shogun?" "When the current Shogun dies, I will be the one to take his place" "Until then, Dogen, fare thee well" "Two and a half years later," "I was told of his death" "I feared I had lost my way on my journey, but meeting you," "I have regained the courage to go on" "No doubt" "Kugyo has inspired me" "Dogen, what is the journey you speak of?" "To find my true master and achieve true Buddhism" "Starting in Tien-tung-shan, I have met with several learned priests but none of them truly practiced Buddhism" "Here in the Zen temples populated by disciples of the Ta-hui sect, who lack both faith and the will to practice," "I began to wonder whether my quest for a true master was hopeless" "Dogen, please return to Tien-tung-shan" "To Tien-tung-shan?" "You will find your true master there" "My true master?" "After the death of Master Wu-chi, following an Imperial decree," "Zen master Ju-ching became the head priest there" "He was my master" "What kind of man is Ju-ching?" "The practice of Zen is to have the mind and the body fall away" "This falling away is the path out of ignorance and vice" "There is no second or third path other than Zen" "Sitting in Zen meditation is all" "Ji-uen, let's return to Tien-tung-shan" "How extraordinary" "It is a mysterious coincidence" "You have accomplished the face to face transmission from master to master" "Ayu-wan-shan Kuang-li Zen Temple" "You have come" "The teachings are" "What are the teachings?" "One, two, three, four, five" "Practice is" "What is practice?" "Buddhism has always been apparent" "Everything that happens in this world has always been that way" "No one has anything to conceal" "Even if the meat on your buttocks should tear off, you will keep sitting until you can sit, like Buddha did, on a wire net seat" "Several years later" "In Zazen, you must let all attachments fall away" "How dare you fall asleep!" "You have achieved enlightenment" "Yes" "Mind and body fall away" "Mind and body fall away" "Fall away, fall away" "Dogen, forget even that you have achieved enlightenment" "Yes" "Just as enlightenment is infinite, practice is also infinite" "Enlightenment and practice are inextricably linked" "The Record of the Lineage" "The Record of the Transmission" "By the time that moon is full, Dogen, you will be seeing it from Japan" "Wherever each of us is, you and I will always see the same moon" "Dogen returns to Japan, 1227" "Hey, wait!" "Run!" "Stop!" "Move!" "I'm cheap, c'mon" "Get moving!" "I hear you've been seeing an awful lot of that whore" "Dogen" "Surely that is beneath you" "Is it peculiar?" "No..." "This is the greatest form of true practice" "Where are the others?" "Most have gone into town" "On Promoting Zen Meditation" ""The Zazen I speak of is not learning meditation" ""It is simply the Dharma gate of repose and bliss," ""the practice-realization of absolute enlightenment"" ""On July 17th," "" of this year, 1227," ""Zen master Ju-ching" ""entered Nirvana at the Tien-tung-shan temple"" "I am Koun Ejo, disciple of Bucchi Kakuan of the Dharma sect" "I apologize for my sudden rudeness, but can you tell me what exactly are the teachings of the new, true Buddhism you speak of" "Before I discuss that with you, there is something I want you to read" "Recently, I wrote On Promoting Zen Meditation so that many people may learn about Zen" "Would you, too, like to sit in meditation?" "I hear Dogen of Kennin Temple shamelessly says that he's brought the true teachings of Buddha back from China" "This means that he is maliciously slandering our precious Buddhist tradition" "Just like the Nenbutsu and the Dharma sects, it is a threat to our Buddhism" "We cannot ignore him" "Kennin Temple, Kennin Temple" "I can't read or write" "You're getting in the way of my business" "Kennin Temple, Kennin Temple" "Kennin Temple?" "Don't you even know where Kennin Temple is?" "Japanese words difficult..." "So you're a foreign monk" "Kennin Temple, where?" "I'll take you there, but won't you buy me first?" "I'm cheap" "Dogen is in Kennin Temple" "Dogen..." "You thief!" "Help me!" "No!" "Kugyo, stop!" "Dogen, move" "Kugyo, kill me!" "What?" "It is not your place to judge her" "As ruler it will be your job to create a world, where children like her do not have to go hungry" "I am but a poor monk, I regret that I have no more to offer you" "Off you go, now" "Dogen..." "Is there a Dogen here?" "I am Dogen" "Huh" "May I help you?" "Excuse me..." "Ji-uen" "Why are you here?" "I have come to fulfill Kugyo's promise" "Kugyo's promise?" "The words Kugyo said," ""If you can establish a new Buddhism, I shall convert to it"" "Dogen" "Now that Ju-ching has passed away, you are my only master" "Ji-uen" "I want to try to establish" "Ju-ching's Zen here in Japan" "I need your help" "Yes, most happily" "Please, come in" "You must be tired from traveling" "Let me introduce you" "Oh, my" "I've been looking for you to give you a word of thanks" "You disappeared so quickly" "It's not really a place for us" "Last night, you delivered a treasure to us" "I offer you my thanks" "A word of thanks, no more" "Hush, hush" "Hush, hush" "You're awful early How much did you make?" "Come to Mommy" "What, that's all?" "How dare you" "Why don't you go steal something At least try to take care of us!" "Don't turn out like your daddy" "Orin" "How dare you talk to your husband like that" "I didn't get wounded for fun" "You know I can't work in the shape I'm in" "It doesn't seem to keep you from humping me every night!" "Watch it!" "Move!" "Dogen!" "Get out here!" "There is no cause to be frightened" "I knew they would come someday" "Where are you Dogen!" "If you don't come out here, we're coming in!" "I am Dogen" "You have been dismissing our legitimate" "Hieizan Buddhism, proclaiming that yours is the only true Buddhism and confusing the people" "Show me the new sutras or Buddhist statues that prove the authenticity of your faith!" "I have nothing like that" "Nothing?" "I return empty-handed" "You brought back no proof?" "I have returned with myself, which has inherited authentic Buddhism" "And what did you learn?" "Eyes horizontal, nose vertical" "Eyes are set horizontally while noses are set vertically" "How dare you!" "Your mockery knows no bounds!" "You demon heretic!" "I order you out of Kyoto!" "If you cannot obey, I'll kill you!" "Stand down!" "Stand down!" "Who are you!" "I am the magistrate, Hatano Yoshishige!" "The magistrate" "Though you may be monks of Hieizan," "I cannot possibly ignore your outrageous insolence to Dogen!" "Anyoin Temple" "I am so grateful" "Please take care" "This Anyoin Temple is beloved by my mother's family, the Fujiwaras" "I had long prayed that we could use this as our Zendo" "For now, we begin with just the three of you, but when a single soul achieves enlightenment, many benefit" "Your fourth has also arrived" "Master Dogen, your recent teachings have persuaded me" "Please let me join you" "I beg of you" "Ejo, I appreciate your wishes" "But you are a Buddhist leader and moreover, are responsible for the Dharma sect" "Now is not the time" "When the time comes..." "Please, do not succumb to pressure from other sects, be unwavering in your resolve" "Alms for the body and the soul Giving completes the circle" "Bam-boo" "Bam-boo" "Koshoji Temple" "Zazen" "Someone arrived late" "I offer my apologies" "Ejo" "Please allow me now" "It seems your time has come" "Treasury of True Teachings" "Dogen san!" "Dogen san!" "You are..." "What is wrong?" "My baby's dying!" "What?" "The medicine I got from the doctor isn't working" "I can tell, he's just getting worse and worse" "Say something!" "Save my baby!" "It's your job to save people, right?" "Do something!" "He'll die!" "There is only one way to save this child" "What is that?" "What should I do?" "Tell me!" "Visit every home in this area and try to find a home where no relative has died" "And have that family give you a single bean" "Go back to sleep, my child" "Dawn is not yet here" "When dawn comes the temple bell will ring" "Hey!" "Get out here, you lying monk!" "You made a fool out of me" "There's no such thing as a house where nobody died!" "That's right, that's exactly right" "That is what the master wanted you to learn" "Hey, you" "Can't you make a little noise" "I'm in mourning" "What?" "I killed my little baby..." "Hey..." "I'm making an offering with money I made off my own body" "Why don't you take it?" "Is this money so filthy?" "Let us gratefully accept it" "You joyfully cast aside money which you value as your life" "It is very precious" "I am grateful, Orin" "Buddha Hall" "Straighten your posture and firm your hips" "Yes, like that" "Hold your right hand down, your left hand over it, your thumbs together" "Yes" "Hold your gaze to around here" "I'll kill myself!" "Please stop, Orin san" "Please stop!" "What has happened?" "Orin, what is the matter?" "I hate myself" "I hate myself so much I want to kill me" "You lied to me that Buddha is inside me" "I hate you too!" "My old faith is much better!" "I did not lie!" "Buddha is inside you!" "But you see..." "It's not so easy to meet the Buddha" "Every human wants this and wants that and covets what remains out of reach" "When we cannot have our way we get angry and act foolishly" "We cannot see Buddha because we blind ourselves with such matters" "That is why we sit" "We sit and we sit until that blindfold falls away" "If you do this, you will be able to face the Buddha in you" "Orin" "By killing yourself, you kill Buddha" "And depending on others denies the Buddha within you" "It seems the Hieizan monks are envious of your success" "They are planning a deadly attack on this temple" "If you do not leave here immediately, anything could happen here" "It is deep in the mountains, but I own land in Echizen" "You are free to use that land, Dogen" "I appreciate your kind words Nevertheless..." "Master Dogen, you must decide!" "There is only one of you in all of Japan" "Say, Orin" "With the kid gone, we can travel light" "Let's head east together and start over" "Start over?" "You know what I mean" "No thanks I gave up selling myself" "What the hell" "How the hell are we going to eat?" "I'm thinking about it" "Maybe I'll become a nun" "What?" "Of course I won't" "That's right, of course you won't" "In that case, reconsider..." "Don't touch me" "Orin" "You" "Let go!" "Go back to sleep, my child" "Dawn is not yet here" "When dawn comes the temple bell will ring" "Orin san..." "Shunryo san" "Why did you become a monk?" "Because I was poor" "My parents abandoned me" "I scrounged for garbage and even stole to survive" "Just like me" "One day, I realized," "if I joined a temple I would never starve" "That was my only goal" "I entered the temple a starving demon" "But now that I have met Dogen, I have changed" "Master Dogen told me," ""Why wait to die to meet Buddha?" ""Meet Buddha in this life," "" and find paradise here"" "Instead of just eating," "I chose to practice my faith under Master Dogen" "Dogen san cried when he held my baby" "He cried while you were sleeping, too" "Master Dogen is always sharing our joys and our sorrows" "Kill any who disobey!" "Kill!" "Kill!" "What have they!" "What have they done!" "Please, stop!" "Please, stop!" "Shut up!" "Good enough!" "Let's go" "A heretical sect destroyed!" "You reap what you sow!" "Water!" "Get water!" "Driven out of Kennin Temple, and now driven out of here with our aims half fulfilled," "I am sick with disappointment" "I am heartbroken" "Nevertheless, we cannot allow the true light of Buddhism to be put out" "Fellow monks, we will depart for Echizen, in order to lay the foundation for true Buddhism" "Who are you?" "Oh, Gikai, you made it" "Master Dogen, I, Gikai of the Dharma sect and the others, have raced here to ask your permission to join you" "Let us proceed" "The heavenly way is lofty and serene" "The earthly way, solid and still" "The human way is calm and tranquil" "Throughout the universe there is unending peace" "The person who helped to clear my way towards enlightenment was an elderly Kitchen Master" "The position of Kitchen Master has always been entrusted only to monks whose hearts are committed to seeking the Way" "This is because the practice of Kitchen Master requires a single-minded purity permitting no idle thoughts" ""I owe my knowledge of teachings and my understanding of practice" "" entirely to that Kitchen Master"" "Kitchen Master Instructions "entirely to that Kitchen Master"" "Kitchen Master Instructions" "How is it?" "Have you grown used to the work of Kitchen Master?" "I do my best" "That's good" "Gikai sama, may I ask you a question?" "What is it?" "I understand it logically, but..." "I am not able to sit Zazen the way everyone else can" "I cannot help but panic at the thought of being left behind" "Then you should sit while everyone else sleeps" "You are here, Orin" "Yes" "Master Dogen, please allow me to become a nun here" "I cannot" "Is that because I am a sinful and disgraced woman?" " We do not question past acts" " Why not, then?" "First you must abandon your attachment to the past" "When you are free of your attachments, though you may be in the secular world," "you shall be pure" "Return to Kyoto and do your best" "I will not return" "Gikai sama" "We have no rice to cook" "Nor millet left" "If there is not enough rice, then make porridge" "It is not enough for porridge" "Then make rice broth" "It is not enough for rice broth" "In that case, we shall drink boiled water and sit Zazen" "Completely disengage from normal life and abandon everything you had been engaged with" "Abandon thinking about right and wrong, and of thinking itself, along with thoughts of enlightenment" "Abandon all intentions and thoughts" "This is known as Without Thinking" "We do not sit Zazen for the purpose of enlightenment" "Just sitting in meditation" "That itself is enlightenment" "Shunryo sama" "Orin san" "When did you arrive?" "Ten days ago" "I did not see you and feared you had moved away" "I am responsible for the cooking, so I cannot sit with everyone else" "What is wrong?" "I do not know" ""Plant the seeds" ""In the fields and levees" ""In the fall, there'll be" ""Five kinds of grains" ""In the fall, there'll be five kinds of grains"" "Shunryo sama" "Orin san" "What are you doing?" "I'm mushroom hunting" "I can be your guide I know a good spot" "Look, there" "Here, too" "Ouch!" "Shunryo sama!" "It's not a poisonous snake, you should be fine" "I am so sorry I gave in to temptation" "If you find me acceptable," "I don't mind" "Orin san, please forgive me" "Now you see the base motives that brought me into Buddhism" "But for me to defile you, whose motives are so pure..." "The fault is mine" "I wanted to interact with you as a normal woman, ignoring my own past" "And I wanted you to touch me, not for my female body, but as a real human being" "I am the one who tempted you Forgive me" "Shunryo sama!" "Shunryo, what are you doing!" "Shunryo!" "Shunryo" "What is the meaning of this?" "Zen Master" "I am horrified to realize that the demon of lust has settled into my heart" "It is unforgivable in one who seeks the Way" "Upon careful consideration," "I have resolved to take a leave" "I can no longer defile this temple and your teachings with my presence" "Is the demon still within you?" "Tell him..." "It's gone" "Are you..." "Are you sure that is your decision?" "Yes" "Master" "It is time to sit" "Everyone take your places" "Shunryo!" "The gates of this temple..." "Are always open for you" "Shunryo sama, don't go!" "Don't come near me" "I love you!" "Sir Hatano, you are most welcome" "Please forgive my rudeness arriving so early in the morning and interrupting your Zen meditation" "No, no, for you, Sir Hatano, you are welcome at any hour of any day" "I can never possibly repay the great debt" "I owe you for donating this Zendo" "I remain constantly grateful to you" "It is I who am grateful" "I trust your arrival here, means Hojo Tokiyori is in dire peril" "It is exactly so" "It was a merciless battle" "The Hojo and Miura clans had been closely knit ever since Yoritomo formed their alliance" "But yesterday's friend is today's foe" "In the event, samurai must kill with arrows and with swords" "It was living hell on earth" "You!" "Die!" "Die!" "How dare you defy me, Tokiyori, even in death!" "Damn you!" "Die!" "Die!" "Damn you!" "Go away!" "How dare you!" "Master Dogen please come to Kamakura" "Please save the Shogun" "I beg, I beg of you" "A dog?" "Or a wolf?" "Ji-uen, let us visit living hell together" "Yes" "I am not going to visit the Shogun, Hojo Tokiyori" "I am going to visit, a young man howling in anguish" "Master, let me join you" "I cannot" "I am risking my life on this journey to Kamakura" "Ejo," "I cannot also place your life in danger" "I entrust my affairs to you" "Vast is the robe of liberation" "A formless field of benefaction" "I wear the Buddha's dharma" "Saving all sentient beings" "I am Tokiyori" "I am Dogen of Eiheiji Temple" "I've brought you here because I have something to ask you" "What do you wish to ask me?" "I hear you've returned from China with the true Buddhism passed down from Buddha" "Tell me, what is that?" "They are the true, authentic teachings of Buddha, passed down through generations of monks, without interruption" "But that is the same claim made by all those other sects" "No matter how many sutras you read or chant, or call out Buddha's name, you will not be able to find Buddha's teachings" "What do you do in your sect?" "Just sitting in meditation We sit and we sit" "How can true Buddhism be found, sitting around doing nothing?" "Lord Tokiyori, that is akin to being in the ocean and claiming to have no water" "What!" "Flowers in spring, cuckoos in summer, the moon in autumn" "and chilly snows in winter" "Flowers in spring, cuckoos in summer..." "Dogen, these are most obvious" "They are indeed obvious" "Things as they are" "Seeing things as they truly are..." "That is enlightenment" "Zazen is to see the water in the vast ocean" "And yet, until we find the innate Buddha, we cannot understand there is water in the vast ocean" "I don't understand, Dogen" "What is enlightenment?" "What is the innate Buddha?" "Fortunately, the moon is full tonight" "Lord Tokiyori, shall we go into the garden and look at the moon?" "The moon?" "It is magnificent" "Pure and undefiled Perfect and flawless" "That moon which resides in your heart is innate Buddha" "There is only one moon in the heavens" "I cannot see a moon in my heart" "Furthermore, that full moon is soon fated to fade and whither" "Lord Tokiyori" "Please look" "Lord Tokiyori" "Can you cut down this moon?" "Easily" "I have cut it down" "Is that so?" "Have another look" "Though clouds should obscure the moon, or the moon disappear from the heavens we cannot say there is no moon" "The moon cannot be wet and water cannot be torn" "The moon is innate Buddha, and water is the self" "This incomprehensible dialogue does not quell my anguish" "Damn you" "You're back again" "Get away!" "Dogen" "How can I exterminate these vengeful ghosts which taunt me nightly?" "You cannot exterminate them" "You must convert them" "Convert them?" "Conversion means acceptance" "The pain, sorrow and hate those spirits carry, is precisely your own pain, sorrow and hate" "You must accept all that anguish" "However, until you abandon your entire self you cannot accept that anguish nor will the anguish fade away" "The moment you grasped power in your right hand, your left hand grasped suffering" "Are you telling me to abandon my position as Regent of the land?" "The very definition of a regent is to hold power instead of a monarch" "It is grasping this power that has caused your anguish" "Lord Tokiyori, now is the time to release your grasp" "If I abandon the Regency, there will be civil war" "My duty is to maintain peace throughout the land" "Is that not true?" "No matter how brilliant, no one who has employed weapons to subjugate his people can rule forever" "Certainly, a ruler who knows no peace in his own heart," "can hardly rule peacefully" "Though you fervently wish to be saved," "you don't have the courage to abandon anything" "How dare you, Dogen I, Tokiyori," "have never been so insulted in my life!" "Lord!" "Dogen!" "Are you prepared to die!" "I always have been" "When I came here, I had already abandoned my body and my soul" "As you wish" "If you do evil you will harvest evil" "If you do good you will harvest good" "When death approaches, neither political power nor those you love nor vast fortunes, will be able to save you" "To death, you must go alone" "All that will accompany you is everything you did in life" "That and nothing else" "Master Dogen" "Look at this land" "Here on this land," "I will build a great temple, second to none" "Please stay here in Kamakura, and become its founding priest" "It shall become the great foundation of your Buddhism..." "I cannot accept" "What?" "You refuse?" "My temple is Eiheiji, a very, very small temple in the Echizen mountains" "Master Dogen" "I am so glad to have met you" "Now I must take my leave" ""Flowers in spring," "" cuckoos in summer," ""the moon in autumn" "" and chilly snows in winter"" "Ejo" "Yes" "The monks in the monastery should be as harmonious as milk and water and practice Zen single-mindedly" "Eventually, each monk will become a head priest" "Monks are the eternal companions of Buddhism" "Yes" "Gikai" "Yes" "You shall be the abbot" "Assist Ejo and devote yourself to the three minds" "The three minds are, the joyful mind, the caring mind and the universal mind" "Yes" "Ji-uen" "Yes" "Is all well?" "Of course, sir" "Right now, I can see Tien-tung-shan" "The only ones who actually saw Ju-ching practice Zen, are you" "and I, none other" "You understand my meaning?" "Yes" "Kugyo..." "You have been a good disciple..." "And..." "A good friend" "The words you spoke to me, your disciple Ji-uen," "give me the greatest joy" "First, be free from desire" "Second, be satisfied" "Third, be tranquil" "Fourth, be diligent" "Fifth, remember the teachings" "Sixth, meditate" "Seventh, practice wisdom" "Eighth, avoid pointless talk" "Each of Buddha's disciples learned these Eight Means to Enlightenment" "Unless you study these, you are not a Buddhist disciple" "You must not be negligent, even for a moment" "Ejo" "Yes" "Let Orin take Buddhist orders" "Yes" "Zazen" "In the time of life, there is none other than life" "In the time of death, there is none other than death" "Master..." "Continue to sit!" "Dogen enters Nirvana, 1253" "What a surprise" "To get aims from a monk" "Tell me, do monks make a good living?" "What the hell is this?" "To study the Buddha Way is to study the self" "To study the self is to forget the self" "To forget the self is to be enlightened by everything" "To be enlightened by everything is to free your own body and mind" "and the body and mind of others" "You hold Buddha in your hands" "Buddha lives in your hands" "So let us hold him close and protect him" "Is the Buddha in my hands?" "That is right" "Hold your hands, not like that, but like this" "Because it's raining..." "Dogen NAKAMURA KANTARO" "Orin UCHIDAYUKI" "Ji-uen  Minamoto Kugyo TEI RYUSHIN" "Hatano Yoshishige KATSUMURA MASANOBU" "Hojo Tokiyori FUJIWARA TATSUYA" "Shunryo KORA KENGO" "Ejo MURAKAMI JUN" "Ju-ching ZHENG TIANYONG" "Orin's husband AIKAWA SHOW" "Kitchen Master SASANO TAKASHI" "Monju's mother TAKAHASHI KEIKO" "Based on the book by OTANI TETSUO" "Music UZAKI RYUDO / NAKANISHI HASEO" "Director of Photography MIZUGUCHI NORIYUKI" "Production Design MARUO TOMOYUKI" "Editing KIKUCHI JUNICHI" "Production TWINS JAPAN inc." "Distributed by Kadokawa Pictures, inc." "ZEN Production Committee" "Director / Screenplay TAKAHASHI BANMEI" "English subtitles LINDA HOAGLUND 2009 ZEN Production Committee"