Good Road for the Living and the Dead: Niino Bon Odori, Festival to Send Off the Gods
Plot: On the nights of the 14th, 15th, and 16th of August, the obon festival takes over the streets of the Niino community of Nagano Prefecture. At its conclusion, a practitioner of shugendo, a syncretic tradition combining elements of Buddhism and Shinto, serves as priest to send off the spirits of ancestors past that have journeyed back for Obon as well as the new spirits of those deceased within the past year
Release Date:
Friday, October 4 1991
33 years ago
33 years ago