Introduction
17-year-old Sayako Amanokawa aspires to become a journalist, just like Kanemoto, an elite newspaper writer she looks up to. But Kanemoto, shamed from an erroneous report about a corruption scandal, jumps in front of a train and commits suicide. Since that incident, Sayako suddenly becomes able to see spirits and almost loses her life. However, from that near-fatal incident she experiences something extraordinary. The journalist inside her stirred, she embarks to find out about the truth. But the forces that stand in her way turn out to be much more formidable than she ever imagined.
(Source: ANN)
Audience reviews
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PumpkinSpicePie
This is a cult movie. Seriously.
And I don't mean a movie with a cult following, I mean a movie directly connected with a current Japanese cult, created to spread it's screwed up propaganda.
And trust me it's not the only one either. There are others just like it tied directly back to the same cult as well.
I came across this movie around maybe 6 years ago on vacation with my family in the middle of the night while scrolling on youtube. Since I was pretty new to the whole anime thing and would literally watch whatever I got my hands on, legal or youtube-wise, I thought why not.
My memory is pretty blurry about the experience as a whole, but I could remember a few weird things. 1, the reincarnation of Buddha into a japanese man, an athiest father(the antagonistic 'non-believer) being pr…
Read at the sourceThatguysproblem1
This movie seems overdone in my opinion. This movie feels like it was written by Christians because if you watch the movie, if you know something about the Buddhism, the religion is based off meditation and not lecture. Its like if the writers realized that 98% of the population of Japan is not Christian and then they said "That's not Jesus, its... Buddha!" Don't believe me, take the transcript of the movie and replace Buddha with Jesus and any Buddhist reference and replace it with Christian References and it would make since, in fact better since because Buddhism doesn't have giant mega church. It you say otherwise, it is probably most-likely a fake church.
Some plot points like the girl seeing ghost is forgotten by the end of the movie and plays almost no part other than saving her bro…
Read at the sourceS-Mazoku
The reviews here are mostly just bull.
Finishing the film 3 days ago, it's fresh in my mind, so let me enlighten you with a true review.
The story starts off simple but then goes its own direction with the introduction of plot twists, religious perspectives and its referral or continuation to The Laws Of The Sun (watch that before you watch this film).
Despite not being an official sequel to the animated film mentioned above, this anime draws its ideas from it and references it using its actual scenes - so in a way, it's a sequel to that story.
What's wrong with the story being "too religious"? Why watch it knowing that it's going to be religious, since the title 'screams' religion?
It's meant to be religious. Sure, it does seem like propaganda, but keep in mind that this film was crea…
Read at the sourceAbs0
Pretty much just the worst anime I've ever seen. It's not just religious propaganda, it misrepresents Buddhism and skepticism at the same time. There are no such things such as demons or evil spirits in Buddhism. The "possession" idea is purely a medieval Christian invention. It's downright disgusting that they would cast the "Buddha" as an exorcist. Buddhism is about self-control, as in, control of your own mind - to avoid thinking and acting mindlessly and instead practice mindfulness, being aware of your own thoughts, etc.
But actually, the main problem I have with this anime is that it doesn't have any good violence scenes. To be fair, it is PG-13, so I shouldn't have expected anything good. Oh well. I'll never watch any movie not rated R ever again.
Also the art was shit.
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Though this anime was pretty much religion it sorta made me believe in the buddha even though it confused. This anime is surprisingly persuasive. The plot of the story I actually enjoyed it though you may find it a bit cheesy.
Read at the sourceToriChan
I stumbled upon Buddha Saitan (Rebirth of Buddha in English) on YouTube. If you are interested in watching this as well, I suggest looking it up on YouTube because I did a quick Google search and could not find a reputable streaming site hosting it. Beware though: The version uploaded to YouTube is dubbed, however still has subtitles. So if you can't handle the unfortunate (but not unbearable) dubbed voices you are just going to have to turn off its sound.
The story follows 17 year old school girl Sayako who dreams of becoming a journalist. One day at a train station she sees a ghost of her idol journalist, Kanemoto, who committed suicide in the same train station the day before. The apparition of Kanemoto, distressed, pulls Sayako into a courtroom hearing where it is decided if he will g…
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