Zen

The film tells the story of a Zen Buddhist teacher Dogen Zenji who was a leading religious figure 750 years ago, during the Kamakura period. After losing his mother, he decides to perform the ascetic training in China to become a Buddhist teacher. One summer morning, enlightened Dogen returns to Japan and devotes himself as an evangelist of the new Buddhism. But the new form was unacceptable and a community begins taking steps to suppress. . . (oficjalny tekst dystrybutora)