The Burning Buddha Man

燃える仏像人間 (original)

6.4

/10

1h 20mAnimation Fantasy Horror Thriller

There is a series of Buddha statue thefts in Kyoto. Beniko (Yuka Iguchi), a high school girl, gets the Buddha statue at her family’s temple stolen and has her parents killed at the same time. Beniko hears from Enju (Minori Terada), her parents’ friend, that a robbery group called SEADDATTHA is the one who killed her parents, and feels the strong urge for vengeance. Enju offers Beniko to live with him since she has no place to go. She wanders into Enju’s secret room and meets an ugly creature that looks like a fusion of her parents and Buddha statue…

Spoken language: ja

Starring Chisako Hara, Mitsuko Hoshi, Yuka Iguchi, Ryûki Kitaoka, Kazuyoshi Sakai, Saori Takahashi, Minori Terada, Nao Hanai

Watch "The Burning Buddha Man" from streaming services Amazon, Apple TV+ (itunes) released in 2013. It's a animation and fantasy movie, and has a rating of 6.4 out of 10 from Imdb which is usually fine for this kind of movie, and is currently only available for purchase or rent.