The Burning Buddha Man
There is a series of Buddha statue thefts in Kyoto. Beniko, a high school girl, gets the Buddha statue at her family’s temple stolen and has her parents killed at the same time. She needs to know what caused the death of a parents and dreams of revenge. She goes on a fantastical journey to ultimately face the demon. The entire film is produced by hand drawing all the gods ‘manifesto animation’ or ‘gekimation’ based on the amazing hand drawings.
Director: Ujicha
Actors: Chisako Hara, Kazuyoshi Sakai, Minori Terada, Mitsuko Hoshi, Nao Hanai, Ryûki Kitaoka, Saori Takahashi, Yuka Iguchi