DARPAN's Must Watch at VIFF 2016: Suffering of Ninko
Vancouver International Film Festival29 Sep '16 to 14 Oct '16 @ 12:00 AM - 12:00 AM
We’re in the ancient Japan of the Hyaku-monogatari (the classical ghost-story anthology The Hundred Tales), but you’ve never seen a Japanese period movie like this before. Ninko is a virtuous Buddhist monk who’s embarrassed to discover that he’s irresistible to many women (and some men). After a particularly troubling encounter with a masked woman, he undertakes a journey to "purify" himself, hoping that this will equip him to rebuff sexual advances. He meets the samurai Kanzo and hears of a village decimated by the rapacious mountain goddess Yama-onna, who kills men to absorb their energy. Finally Ninko has a quest to fulfill…
The winning teams will receive $5,000 cash prize and industry in-kind prizes, as well as the opportunity for their films to be screened at the 20th Annual VAFF on November 2016.
The event will project an “An enthralling journey of India giving the audience glimpses of rural India, technologically-advanced India, cinematic India, and musical India.”
