A film by Jean-Marc Abela and Mark Patrick McGuire
AWARDS
- Official Selection Buddhist Film Festival Europe
- Official Selection Festival International du Film Ethnographique du Quebec
- Official Selection Green Mountain Film Festival
- Official Selection International Buddhist Film Festival
THE FILM
For us, these mountains are
the dwellings of the kami and the buddhas…
There is a unique school of Japanese asceticism called Shugendo, the Way of Acquiring Power, a blend of Shinto, Daoism and Buddhism. Practitioners perform arduous rituals in mountain wildernesses and are deeply committed to protecting the natural environment. Shugendo practitioners take guidance and inspiration from semi-legendary 7th century mystic En no Ozunu (or En no Gyoja), who is venerated as a bodhisattva. Shugendo is not one isolated tradition but various expressions of spiritual practice that share common practices and similar aims.
Shugendo Now is a poetic and intimate journey into a rarely seen world between the developed and the wild, between the present and the infinite.
Filmed on location in the Japanese mountains of Kumano and Yoshino, Tokyo and Osaka.
Produced by Mark Patrick McGuire
Directed by Jean-Marc Abela
An Enpower Pictures Production
BONUS FEATURES
- Interview with filmmakers Mark Patrick McGuire and Jean-Marc Abela
- Additional French, Spanish, and Italian subtitle tracks
TRAILER
FM1016
88 min / Color / Japanese (English subtitles) / Stereo / NTSC / All Region
SRP $24.95
