Suffering of Ninko (movie)
仁光の受難- User score: 5.3
- Production country: Japan
- Producer: Norihiro Niwatsukino
- Production companies: Tricycle Films
- Genre: Drama
- Release date: 10/1/2016
- Run time: 70 min.
Movie description
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…
