Synopsis
Adaptation of Takashi Noguchi’s manga, which itself adapts Baku Yumemakura’s supernatural romance novel.
The original novel is about a 12th-century man named Minamoto no
Yoshitsune (Kurou). Kurou flees into the mountains after losing to his
brother Minamoto no Yoritomo, the first Shogun to rule all of Japan.
History records that he committed suicide, but instead, Kurou meets a
strange, beautiful woman named Kuromitsu in her mountain hermitage.
Eventually, Kurou falls in love with Kuromitsu, but then realizes she
conceals a dark secret. He learns that he is unable to die and
continues to live for a thousand years as Japan evolves into a future
society.
Rating: R - 17+ (violence & profanity)