TV series

Mononoke

2007 · 1 season

A haunting, cerebral descent into human guilt and folklore, where each exorcism is a slow, unsettling psychological excavation.

Overview: The Medicine Seller is a deadly and mysterious master of the occult who travels across feudal Japan in search of malevolent spirits called mononoke to slay. When he locates one of these spirits, he cannot simply kill it; he must first learn its Form, its Truth, and its Reason in order to wield the mighty Exorcism Sword and fight against it. He must begin his strange exorcisms with intense psychological analysis and careful investigative work—an extremely dangerous step, as he must first confront and learn about the mononoke before he even has the means to defeat it.
How it feels: Eerie, dark, tense and melancholic. Slow-burning and demanding.
About: Guilt, death, obsession, morality
Content: Mild violence, gore and sexual content. No swearing.
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Tone: eeriestrength 3 of 3
darkstrength 2 of 3
tensestrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 2 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: guilt
death
obsession
morality
isolation
Places: single country house
sea
countryside
Era: period
Audience: adult
Form: anthology
nonlinear
Content intensity: Gore mild
Language none
Violence mild
Sex mild