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Ichikawa Kon's masterful psychological study of an individual pushed to extremes and ultimately destroyed, based on the true story of a novice monk who deliberately set fire to a cherished national...

Ichikawa Kon's masterful psychological study of an individual pushed to extremes and ultimately destroyed, based on the true story of a novice monk who deliberately set fire to a cherished national monument. Uses a series of flashbacks to tell how the troubled young man fled from a miserable childhood on Japan's remote northwestern coast, hoping to find spiritual purity as one of the monks at a famous temple. But instead of devotion to the shrine, he discovered a pervasive corruption that propelled him toward a final act of desperation.

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