Kukai

Directed by Junya Satō

With Kinya Kitaoji, Mayumi Ogawa, Kō Nishimura, Hideo Murota and Hisaya Morishige

The life and times of Kûkai, a Japanese monk who studies Esoteric Buddhism in the far reaches of India, China and Tibet, then uses their combined influence to establish the Shingon school during the Heian period in early 9th Century AD.