Taki Kudo, Shamanic Medium of Tsugaru - PREVIEW

Purchase: http://www.der.org/films/taki-kudo-sh... Filmed between 1991 and 1997, this film documents the final years of the charismatic Ms. Taki Kudo, a medium, healer and fortune teller. Every year she comes to Japan's sacred Mt. Osorozan where the mediums draw chopsticks for the best places to set up their booths. Summoning the spirits of the dead, she answers clients' questions with reassurances and criticisms from deceased relatives, and displays the elaborate shrines that families tend on behalf of their loved ones. She performs ceremonies for health and purification, and exorcises evil spirits and grudges by sending their paper representations floating downriver on a tiny boat. a film by Yasuhiro Omori produced in association with the National Museum of Ethnology, Japan distributed by Documentary Educational Resources