Movie
The Voyage of Bashô
2019 · 98 min
A quiet, contemplative drift through landscapes and verse, asking for patience and rewarding it with stillness.
- Directed by
- Richard Dindo
- Genres
- Documentary, Drama
- Starring
- Hiroaki Kawamoto, Higuchi Seitaro
- Overview
- A fictionalised documentary about the great Japanese poet Bashô (1644–1694), the spiritual father of haiku poetry. A monk, portraying the poet, journeys through Japan, following Bashô's journal and writing many of his haikus. A ruminant, poetic, Zen Buddhist observation of nature – a return to the lost paradise of unspoilt nature.
- How it feels
- Slow-burning and demanding.
- About
- Nature, isolation, faith, memory
- Content
- No violence, gore, sexual content or swearing.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Directed by
- Richard Dindo
- Genres
- Documentary, Drama
- Starring
- Hiroaki Kawamoto, Higuchi Seitaro