(based on Osamu Tezuka's manga) follows Prince Siddhartha’s transformation into the Buddha. Picking up years after the first film, it tracks his transition from a life of royal privilege to one of extreme asceticism and eventual enlightenment. The Core Conflict
Accompanied by Assaji , a boy with the gift of prophecy, and Dhepa , a one-eyed ascetic monk, Siddhartha travels through a world filled with misery. Buddha 2 The Endless Journey -2014- BluRay 1080...
: Toshiaki Komura, who took over from the first film's director, Kozo Morishita. : Toshiaki Komura, who took over from the
The film began not with a smiling Buddha or a title card, but with a single frame of a foot descending a dusty path. Soundless. The next frame showed that foot again, then another, and another — a series of steps stitched together across different soils: palace tiles, forest moss, village dirt roads, a prison yard. Faces flashed in the spaces between shots: a child whose hand was sticky with sugar, an old monk with paper-thin skin, a soldier with mud under his nails. None of them wore the same expression twice. The next frame showed that foot again, then
The Endless Journey picks up immediately where The Great Departure left off. Siddhartha (now a wandering ascetic) has left the palace walls but has not yet found the answers to suffering (Dukkha).
: Japanese language with various subtitle options depending on the region . Aspect Ratio : 1.85:1 .