Prayer Beads

A quiet, contemplative anthology where separate lives slowly knot together, leaving a lingering sense of fate and unease.

Created by

Masahiro Okano, Naoki Kusumoto

Genres

Mystery

Starring

Fumina Hara, Hijiri Kojima, Mari Nagata

Overview

Prayer Beads, also called "omoinotama" or "nunju" in Japanese, are the small wooden beads strung on a loop used in Buddhist worship. The number of beads is typically 108, corresponding to the 108 earthly desires or sins that the beads have the power to extinguish. "Prayer Beads" is a series of 9 episodes of 30-minute dramas strung together, with the characters in each episode designing one thread of fate. The short independent episodes are skillfully linked together to become one story. The protagonists' dreams and fears and feelings about this life are all taken up and spun around to reach a dramatic conclusion in the final story.

How it feels

Melancholic, eerie, earnest and tense. Measured and needs your attention.

About

Fate, faith, identity, isolation

Content

Mild violence, sexual content and language. No gore.

Note

Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown

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