A live-action movie based on the anime was produced in 2006, directed by Katsuhiro Otomo, famous for creating the print and film versions of Akira. Its world premiere was held at the 2006 Venice Film Festival and it opened as a roadshow theatrical release in Japanese theaters on 2007-03-24. It consists of episodes 3, 7, 12 and 20 of the anime. The cast consists of Joe Odagiri, as Ginko, Makiko Esumi as Nui and YÅ« Aoi as Tanyuu who appears in episode 20, among others.
Mushishi Ginko
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Mushi-shi - s1e1 - The Green Seat
The Mushi Master Ginko travels deep into the mountains, driven there by rumors of a young boy who possesses a rare gift. The ability to draw forth new forms of life with a simple paint brush. Work thought best left to the gods, his grandmother cursed him to a life of fear and solitude shortly before her death. The youth cannot reconcile the world he sees with the reality he is told to be true. But when Ginko crosses paths with a restless mushi in the night, the full story is revealed only when two halves become a whole.
Thereâs no effective way to describe the mushi â They simply are. They simply have been since life first began. As with many other things, man has forgotten how to see. And just as itâs difficult to describe the feel or texture of an object to someone whoâs never held it in his own hands, to one whoâs never seen the mushi⦠Between this world and the next, there is a point where it becomes impossible to distinguish between plant and animal, between life and death. It is a place man was never meant to tread⦠This is where you will find the mushi. Neither good nor evil, they are life in its purest form. An unseen river reshaping the path of man, through their very presence we are changed. Vulgar and strange, they have inspired fear in humans since the dawn of time and have, over the ages, come to be known as âmushi.â
From the anime "Mushi-shi" by FUNimation - Now available on DVD. Description- There's no effective way to describe the mushi. They simply are. They simply have been since life first began. As with many other things, man has forgotten how to see. And just as it's difficult to describe the feel or texture of an object to someone who's never held it in his own hands, to one who's never seen the mushi⦠Between this world and the next, there is a point where it becomes impossible to distinguish between plant and animal, between life and death. It is a place man was never meant to tread... This is where you will find the mushi. Neither good nor evil, they are life in its purest form. An unseen river reshaping the path of man, through their very presence we are changed. Vulgar and strange, they have inspired fear in humans since the dawn of time and have, over the ages, come to be known as "mushi."
Clip from episode one of the Mushi-Shi dub. Enjoy!
Japanese Animation. This anime is Masterpiece. I love it. BGM: KOKIA / il mare dei suoni
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Mushi-shi - s1e11 - The Sleeping Mountain
Ginko is sent in search of another Mushi Master, this one the guardian of a mountain, neighbor to a village. An old man whose past is not unlike Ginko's own, he was once called upon to take up a god's duties and maintain balance A mantle not lightly assumed, caused by careless words and magnificent death. But as the cry of a great mushi predator tolls in the night and the apprentice is found an untrue successor, Ginko rushes to great heights only to play witness to noble deed.
Summoned to a remote village, Ginko has traveled into the winter which swallows all sound. Every year when this valley lies bereft of noise save for the silence of falling snow, villagers are stricken with a sudden loss of hearing. The cause is soon found and the offending mushi easily vanquished, but the grandson of the elder proves a far more drastic dilemma. While one should shelter that which he does not wish lost, even when the ears are covered all sound cannot be extinguished.
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Mushi-shi - s1e2 - The Light of the Eyelid
A young girl has been locked away by her family, for fear of a disease without cause or cure. Her cousin refuses to abandon the sightless youth to her fate, worried that she will soon lose the light within as well. Drawn by the scandal of medical mystery like a moth to a flame, Ginko arrives as loyalty allows the contagion to spread. Too much time spent between the worlds, too little now left to save the girl. When fascination of the mushi invited them in across the threshold, the cure must be found in the curse.
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Mushi-shi - s1e4 - The Pillow Pathway
Ginko travels back to a place he's been before, to check in on a man whose dreams carry portents of the future. In the midst of desolation Ginko finds grief, and rather than a mushi he must free this one from guilt. Where dire advice was not followed the balance was lost. Prophetic vision warped to become living nightmare, fevered brow cradled in the pillow's embrace. Only in the sleep of death are the worlds merged and the pathway found, but what becomes of the host when the guest is no longer welcome?
Neither good nor evil, they are life in its purest form. Vulgar and strange, they have inspired fear in humans since the dawn of time and have, over the ages, come to be known as “mushi.” 1. To reenact the phoenix with water in place of flame, miracles tarry on the breath of the dying. When a single day carries the weight of a lifetime, one will choose to live on the other side of time. 2. The seed of a man driven mad by fading beauty. The search for a mimic of an illusion. While not a one should live only for the sake of living, false errand proves no better excuse for waste. 3. A marriage caught in the birth of a legend. Both will lose something already mislaid, guilt will leave one to endure. But where the semblance of love must be left behind, sorrow and solace await. 4. One man, responsible for a village destroying itself, unaware. The cycle of life and death, the equation unbalanced, requires knowing sacrifice. Here, eternal repentance will bear the greatest fruit.
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Mushi-shi - s1e22 - Shrine in the Sea
Ginko travels to an island to investigate the legend of the uminaoshi, people who have died and been reborn. The remote island is one of idyllic beauty, deep family bonds and great happiness A paradise whose inhabitants truly grasp the joy of all that is life. Upon further inspection of their miracle, Ginko finds a mushi at the mystery's core, one that feeds on time but regurgitates life. Caught deep within the sea's grasp, even the master will question whether he can truly leave this life behind.
Mushi-shi Live-action movie (2007)
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Mushi-shi - s1e5 - The Traveling Swamp
Trekking across mountains to a seaside village, Ginko finds his fellow hikers unsettling indeed. The first is a misplaced swamp which can inexplicably travel as if blessed with feet. The second, a melancholy, green-haired beauty whose fate is bound to that of her companion. While she accepts that she will pass into oblivion along with the mushi into its source, guilt from a former deed drives Ginko to seek to turn the tides. Will the final journey of one prove the beginning or the end of the other?
2006 (Mushi No Ourai) Limited Edition
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Mushi-shi - s1e7 - Raindrops and Rainbows
Forced to seek shelter as temporary reprieve from the rain, Ginko meets a man chasing rainbows out of desperation rather than hope. Having inherited a name and a curse from his father, two ages of one family wasted in search of a fleeting fruit after the rain. Recognizing the rainbow as mushi in brilliant disguise, Ginko agrees to chase storms alongside him, adding his knowledge to the quest. But where the father was driven by joy, the son is driven from shame. Can the source of hope be caught by one without it?
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Mushi-shi - s1e20 - A Sea of Writings
A family renowned for two things: An exhaustive archive of the records of Mushi Masters and a black birthmark, a curse that's survived through the generations. The archives are priceless, the girl even more so. For despite hearing countless tales of the horrors of the mushi and their need to be eradicated, she, a woman ravaged by mushi, she treats them with love rather than hate, sealing them away forever without doing any harm. A scribe with a golden heart. A scribe with mushi for pets. The end.
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Mushi-shi - s1e9 - The Heavy Seed
In his never ending quest for food, Ginko is sent to a village blessed with abundance in a year of strife Or rather cursed, for what should have been the death of many will mean the death of only one. In exchange for the mushi giving life it must take one, an arrangement which over generations equals murder on a scale greater than simple sacrifice. But when the current guardian confesses his secret, a plan to end the vicious cycle, Ginko takes pity and soils his hands to give the greatest gift of all.
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Mushi-shi - s1e26 - The Sound of Footsteps on the Grass
Three young boys, each bound to different paths: One to rule over the land, one to read the signs of the land and one to eternally wander the land. On the side of a very special mountain, these three young boys will meet. On the side of that mountain, events will shape them into the men they are to be. Time will pass and destruction will come, and one will prove unable to protect the land he loves. Yet each will remember: Taku of the Mountain, Isazu of the Watari and Ginko of the Mushi
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