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The Tale of The Princess Kaguya

Kaguya-hime no Monogatari

2013, Movie, 1 ep, 81%, Studio Ghibli

Recommended by 5 The Book of the Dead fans on AniList. Both have Religion.

Okina is a bamboo cutter in ancient rural Japan. One day in the forest, he finds a tiny baby in the folds of a bamboo shoot. He brings the creature home to his wife Ounaa and they decide to keep her and raise her as a princess. She is clearly not of this world. Kaguya grows at…

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About The Book of the Dead

2005, Movie, 1 ep, 59%

When a young noblewoman, Iratsume, falls into a trance after copying Buddhist sutras and walks to a remote temple that women are forbidden to enter, she stirs up the ghost of the executed Prince Otsu. Otsu's ghost then mistakes Iratsume for one of her ancestors, a young woman who came to watch his execution. The beautiful face of this young woman was the last thing the Prince saw before he died, and his ghost cannot rest while her face haunts his sleep.

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