Rosuke, a monk, has gone missing. His lover, Nonoka, takes the assassin Shinno to a religious temple in search of Rosuke. There, they meet a sorcerer called Hanzo. Meanwhile, Rosuke is on a spaceship heading to the unknown planet named Kelman, in another dimension. There, he meets a strange old man. And then, a metaphysical battle.
Direction
Toyoda's final film goes full cosmic nihilist with zero apologies
Cinematography
Spaceship Buddhism shouldn't look this gorgeous and wrong
Acting
Kubozuka's thousand-yard stare could pierce dimensions
Director
Toshiaki Toyoda
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Toyoda completed this while battling depression; the film's release was posthumous, making its themes of escape and oblivion almost unbearably autobiographical.
The 'gate' imagery deliberately echoes Aum Shinrikyo propaganda—Toyoda was obsessed with how spirituality curdles into violence.
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