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Completed - JAPANESE, MANDARIN - Historical, Drama - 127 minutes

Log Line

Smash hit of 2009- Drawing more than 350,000 admissions in 6 weeks, ZEN is a profound, inspiring true story of legendary ZEN master Dogen.

Year of production : 2009

Director(s) : Banmei TAKAHASHI
Writer(s) : Banmei TAKAHASHI
Cast : Kantaro NAKAMURA, Tatsuya FUJIWARA, Yuki UCHIDA

Producer(s) : Tetsuo OTANI

Synopsis

To cast away everything, surrendering yourself to the flow of nature and just sitting in meditation... This is the essence of Dogen’s Zen Buddhism. In the 13th century, Dogen, a young Japanese monk traveled to China, determined to find his true master. There he found a monk who taught him that sitting in Zen mediation is the true and only path to enlightenment. Returning, enlightened, to Japan, Dogen risked his life to pioneer Zen Buddhism.

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Country(ies) : JAPAN

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