The GateKeeper of Enmyoin ~According to a 95-year-old Female Buddhist Priest from reiko Watch Video
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⏲ Duration: 74 min 12 sec ✓ Published: 16-Mar-2013
Description: Teijun Ogawa, a female priest from the Shingon Buddhist Sect--a rarity in Japan--talks about her past, but refuses to speak about her experiences as a woman. She dies before the filming was complete. A homecoming visit (the husband of the filmmaker couple is from the area and had grown up listening to Teijun's chant) with the priest's mysterious successor, who is also a woman, a young woman, inspires the filmmakers to explore the older nun's unspoken feelings while they themselves struggle to fi
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