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Joshikosei, So ni Naru.
Japanese Drama - 2023, 6 episodes7.3
High school girl Shimoshiraishi Mugi, a former idol otaku is about to graduate high school but still is undecided in her career path. Her grandfather, who was the chief priest of a temple, passes away, and during the…
A Hometown in Heart
Korean Movie - 19497.2
A child monk, Do Sung learns the teachings of the Buddha while he lives with the temple's head monk. Do Sung receives motherly love from a young widow, who frequently visits the temple. Childless Eun Hui begs the head…
Passage to Buddha
Korean Movie - 19937.0
Seon Jae is a young boy who spends his life on the road in search of his mother. A modern unfolding of the Avatamsaka sutra, his spiritual odyssey leads him to telling encounters with strange people and, eventually,…
Come, Come, Come Upwards!
Korean Movie - 19897.0
The movie (directed by Im Kwon-taek) follows the divergent paths of two young nuns. Both leave the temple and weather the challenges of an earthly world that tests their faith. When the two women finally return to the…
Action Dongja
Korean Movie - 20207.1
A rare chance to experience a live-action children’s movie made in Korea. An elementary student name Jingu can no longer stay with his parents and comes to live in a temple of young monks, but he is shy and does not…
Fancy Dance
Japanese Movie - 19897.1
Yohei, a punk rocker, becomes a Buddhist monk in order to inherit a mountain temple. Though initially rebelling against the tough monastic discipline, he learns to adjust. Then his girlfriend shows up, enticing him to…
The Sinners of Hell
Japanese Movie - 19606.8
A graduate-school student has a friend who is pure evil. His friend and he are out driving one night when they hit a drunkard and the friend leaves the accident victim to die. The student's life then goes downhill from…
The Dragon Chronicles - The Maidens
Hong Kong Movie - 19946.8
A Legend has it that in a faraway place beyond the edge of the earth, there exists a broken-hearted man with infinite power. Abandoned by his loved ones, the inheritance of the old man's powers becomes a battleground…
Ganji Temple
Japanese Movie - 19626.9
Satoko is a mistress by trade, or fate: when her master, the silkscreen artist of the Kohoan Temple in Kyoto, dies, she is given to the temple's lascivious head priest Kikuchi. She is drawn to a melancholy young acolyte,…
Mindfulness and Murder
Thai Movie - 20116.9
When a boy is murdered in the grounds of a Buddhist monastery in Bangkok, the police do little to solve the crime, leaving Father Ananda - a former homicide detective - to investigate the murder. With the help of his…
The Boxer’s Omen
Hong Kong Movie - 19836.6
While in Thailand to avenge his brother who was crippled in a fight with a corrupt Thai boxer, a man gets caught up in a web of fate, Buddhism and black magic.
Phiphop Matchurat
Thai Drama - 2023, 35 episodes
No one can escape the law of karma. Matchurat, the sage ruler of the underworld, is the final judge of the dead and even those who've not yet passed. (Source: MyDramaList)
High Heel wo Haita Soryo
Japanese Special - 2022, 1 episodes
Kodo Nishimura: a Buddhist monk and LGBTQ+ activist. Building on his own experience of harnessing Buddhist teachings to overcome adversity, he works to raise awareness of sexual discrimination. (Source: nhk.or.jp) ~~…
Fah Mee Ta 2022
Thai Drama - 2022, 53 episodes
This anthology series reflects societal issues. With a circulating cast of famous actors, each episode presents a new story to remind us that what we put out into the world, we receive in turn. (Source: MyDramaList)
Dark Red Forest
Chinese Movie - 20218.5
A work of visual awe and matter-of-fact spiritual inquiry, "Dark Red Forest" is a majestic documentary portrait that details the annual retreat of thousands of Tibetan nuns to small wooden houses on the vast Tibetan…
Ai Khai Dek Wat Chedi
Thai Drama - 2021, 8 episodes
This semidocumentary is the story of the child spirit Ai Khai of Wat Chedi told through a series of first-person contemporary accounts of his favours and historical dramatisations of Ai Khai and his miracles. (Source:…
Fah Mee Ta 2021
Thai Drama - 2021, 25 episodes
This anthology series reflects societal issues. With a circulating cast of famous actors, each episode presents a new story to remind us that what we put out into the world, we receive in turn. (Source: MyDramaList)
Master Sheng Yen
Taiwanese Movie - 2020
In the 1940s, the time that the dignity of Chinese Buddhism fell into the nadir, a 14-year-old boy was ordained to be a Buddhist monk in Nantong, China. Since then, he has embarked on a journey of pursuing and spreading…
Nine Monks
Korean Movie - 2020
For the first time in the history of Korean Buddhism, nine monks ceased hostility by staying in a tent throughout winter. Inside the cold tent, ninety days of meditation begins with seven strict rules. Crisis comes to…
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