Cherry Bushido, The

[Opens March 11 in theaters.] Hiroshi Akabane's quirky, unusual, allegory-filled, wacky, religious-based, propaganda-geared, 125-minute film with oddball dialogue and plot in which a martial-arts savvy, patriotic, spiritual, fourth-year, Japanese university student (Yoshiko Sengen), who lives with her kendo dojo owner father (Tokuma Nishioka), her supportive mother (Satoko Ooshima), and brother (Taiyo Ise), joins a religious, nonprofit Japan Salvation Conference organization run by its CEO (Hiroaki Tanaka) and members (Rin Kijima, Rina Narita, et al.) to help the creator God to protect Japan from total annihilation by using astral travel to enter the spirit realm to defeat the snake-sprouting demon (Ryuji Kasahara) in Hades.
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