Director – KAORU NAITO
Genre – Animation, Short, Anime, Japan, Zen
Duration – 11 minutes 38 seconds
Country – Japan
Language – Japanese
Year – 2018
SYNOPSIS: This story is inspired by “Ten Bulls” (Jugyuzu in Japanese: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_Bulls ) that is a series of short poems and accompanying pictures used in the zen tradition to illustrate the stages of a practitioner’s progression towards the purification of the mind and enlightenment. One day, the heroine girl had a dream. In the dream, a doll “Bull” that she loved so much when she was a child got a life and going away to the forest.She started a journey of looking for “Bull”.The audience will experience Zen worldview with ink paintings. Furthermore, will encounter the wonderful nature and mysterious ruins, or creatures in this journey.
DMOFF AWARD –
Official Selection June 2018
