Centres on Jeanne, a journalist tracking a mysterious rare herb that appears only once every 997 years.
Cinematography
Nara's ancient forests shot like living, breathing entities.
Acting
Binoche whispers her way through grief with devastating restraint.
Director
Naomi Kawase
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Kawase shot in Nara, her birthplace, continuing her career-long obsession with the region's spiritual landscape and its ancient practice of shinrin-yoku (forest bathing).
The 'Vision' herb is based on udonge, a mythical Buddhist plant said to bloom only when a sage appears—Kawase literalizes this as a mirror for her characters' unacknowledged wisdom.
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