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A surprise hit at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, Abraxas is a delight with charming characters and profoundly moving. Jonen (played by musician Suneohair) is a Zen monk who works in the temple, “Ryu-un-ji” in a small town in the North East province in Japan. He has a past that in dreaming to be rock musician, he became to hear the noise inside him and declined towards clinical depression. He had even attempted suicide just after becoming a monk. Still, he asks himself all the while, “Is this my life?” When he burns out at his speech in career guidance at a high school in the neighborhood of the temple, it occurs to him that nothing but music can save him after all. Now he realizes his deep desire to give a rock live again.
Genshu, the resident minister of the Zen temple understands Jonen very well. But when he knows Jonen’s desire to give a rock live in their town, Genshu starts worrying. Jonen’s wife Tae also opposes his idea, concerned for his worsening health. Besides, many residents of the town find it unbelievable that a Buddhist monk could give a rock live. However, nobody can change his mind.
Abraxas means a primitive God defined as the power above all, First Principle of all things including good and evil. It is also said that Abraxas is the origin of the mystic word “Abracadabra”.
