KANZEON

Film by Neil Cantwell and Tim Grabham (2011, 87')

The film’s title refers to Kannon, the Bodhisattva of compassion. KanZeOn offers a meditation on sound and its function in Japanese Buddhism. Filmed in Kyushu, it follows three musicians: Akinobu Tatsumi, a Buddhist priest who is also a DJ, Eric Fujii, who plays the ancient mouth-organ (shoo), and finally Akihiro Iitomi, Noh theatre master, kotsuzumi drummer player and jazz musician in his free time.

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http://www.kanzeonthemovie.com/