ALTERNATE SYNOPSIS:
From the acclaimed director of "Akira" and "Steamboy".
The much-anticipated adaptation of the bestselling Japanese manga, Mushishi" is a sumptuous blend of CGI animation and incredible live action.
Ginko is a Mushishi (a bugmaster) and a gifted healer. Whilst traveling through pre-modern Japan he meets the beautiful Tanyu, who records the history of the supernatural bugs by locking them into scrolls.
When the bugs escape the scrolls and attack Tanyu, it is left to Ginko to save her and rescue the traces of a vanishing age.
A visual feast of the senses which will leave you truly astounded, "Mushishi" transports us into a mesmerizing, disturbing, fantastical world. |