Mushishi - Preview
Preview by Jack Foley
FROM the acclaimed director of Akira and Steamboy, and adapted from a hugely successful manga novel, Mushishi transports us into a visually mesmerizing, darkly disturbing, fantastical world.
Ginko in a mushishi (a bug master) a gifted healer who expertly manipulates the mushi, small supernatural, bugs, in touch with the essence of life and death.
Whilst traveling through pre-modern Japan he meets the beautiful Tanyu, a crippled bugmaster who records the history of the mushi by locking them into scrolls.
When the mushi escape Tanyu’s scrolls and attack her Ginko must save Tanyu and at the same time rescue the traces if a vanishing age.
A sumptuous blend of CGI animation and incredible live action, Mushishi is a visual feast of the senses, which will leave you truly astounded.
Mushishi is released on DVD by Revolver Entertainment on Monday, February 25, 2008. It is a certificate 15.