SIFF 2017 Trailer: Suffering of Ninko (Ninkô no junan)

Screening at the Seattle International Film Festival. Tickets available now: Japan | 2016 | 70 minutes | Norihiro Niwatsukino This erotic fantasy set in Japan’s Edo period introduces a sexually irresistible Buddhist monk struggling to stay virtuous as he begins to have strange carnal dreams, cleverly depicted with flashes of dazzling animation, and in one case, a show-stopping update of Ravel’s “Bolero.” In Edo-era Japan, Ninko, one of the youngest novice monks at Japa