Divine Protector, The: The Master Salt Begins

[Opens Oct. 21 in limited theaters and in 2023 on various digital and VOD platforms.] Striking cinematography dominates Hiroshi Akabane's compelling, original, entertaining, mythical-based, creative, intriguing, well-acted, multifaceted, action-packed, 2-hour film in which a cursed Japanese high school student (Saya Fukunaga) and her two friends (Kokoro Nishiwaki and Hiraku Hoshino), who are in an occult club in Tokyo, summon a Udon-loving spiritual divine defender (Rin Kijima), who serves Buddha and is in a constant battle to eliminate the struggle between good and evil, by using a pentagon to remove her cursed spirit and then work together to repel evil, mischievous spirits from other cursed people (Ryo Aoki, Munehiro Yoshida, Moro Morooka, Y?ki Meguro, Hasegawa Kiyo, Junichi Uchiura, Meguro Yuk, et al.).
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