Mizuko (aka Water Child)

[Opens Nov. 19 exclusively on First Look Media's Topic streaming service via topic.com, and Topic's channels on Amazon Prime Video channels, Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV, and Roku; Topic is required for viewing and for more information, log on to topic.com.] Kira Dane's and Katelyn Rebelo's compelling, engaging, artistic, insightful, highly personal, 15-minute, 2019 documentary, which is episode 2 of Roger Ross Williams' monthly series "One Story Up," that intersperses colorful computer animation with live action to showcase the devastating impact and tumultuous emotions that one grieving woman—every woman—experienced after the tragic loss of her unborn child through abortion, highlights Buddhist traditions in Japan and the patron saint "of fetal demise" called the Jizo that smuggles these "unborn souls" to afterlife, and examines as part of a Buddhist ritual, which the Japanese call "mizuko kuyo," in which women can metaphorically return their child to the sea.
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